Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to witnesses who arrived at the conflagration soon after its inception, the first flames burst through the roof in the central part of the building a few minutes after midnight. By 12.30 o'clock, as fresh contingents of firefighters arrived from various Boston, Allston, and Cambridge stations, the flames had already soared to a height at least twice that of the building, coloring the murky, rainladen sky with a deep crimson hue, visible for miles around...
Dresser, "as everyone knows," is the author of "On the Banks of the Wabash," immortal theme song of Hoosierdom, and likely to burst forth wherever two or more loyal souls are gathered together in the faith...