Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With a burst of latent power kept undercover all season, Coach Henry lamar's Jayvee eleven steamrolled over an outclassed Boston University Freshman contingent and emerged on the long end of a 26 to 0 count yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field...
...hours his pupils did unto each other as they had been done by for weeks, swapping acrimonies and getting nowhere. The Governor pared his nails, enjoined his guests to have faith, occasionally bent an ear to the whisperings of his omnipresent adviser, "Judge" Emerson R. Boyles. Once Mr. Dickinson burst out at Mr. Keller: "Do you mean you refuse cooperation?" Chrysler's smooth, ingratiating Attorney Nicholas Kelley referred gently to "our friends across the table," said: "I can't believe we won't settle this controversy...
...Washington burst out quick pruts of irritation from Senators Minton, Thomas, Vandenberg, Burke, Nye and Adams, as well as several Congressmen. Steve Early, White House secretary, came out of the President's study next day and remarked to reporters with studied severity: "It would have been kind and polite of the speaker to have consulted the victim before he spoke." This satisfied nobody, but it served to remind a U. S. absorbed by the War that a Presidential election was only 377 days away, and that the third term was an issue...
...assuming that twisted bodies mean twisted souls, they writhed like the Laocoon group. A revolutionary solemnly announced that only a small part of the human race have their heads cut off. The villain twitched about the stage like Mephistopheles with a tic. The audience half expected Fannie Brice to burst in, roll her eyes, and mutter as she did of yore: "It is always c-o-old in Roosia...
...concealed pit under the floor. When the lights go out for the show, a section of the floor drops a few feet, slides sidewise under the basement ceiling. Controlled from a panel of small green lights, the projector rises like an orchestra in a cinemansion. The stars burst out on the vaulted "sky," and the whole audience says...