Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago was the famed $3,900,000 gambling casino Palais de la Mediterranee built by the late railroading Jay Gould's son Frank Jay (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933 et seq.). Burned at Juan-les-Pins last week was another Gould casino, with Frank Jay inside as flames burst from the stage. "Under Gould's personal direction," reported Associated Press, "the crowd was evacuated...
...Majesty's Government, not only with service uniforms but with a "walking out uniform" of fetching blue, designed explicitly to increase his sex appeal. All this the War Secretary, markedly handsome and virile husband of famed and markedly feminine Lady Diana Manners, described in his final burst of oratory last week as "a new Charter of Freedom for the British soldier...
...burst of speed and skillful grappling, and displaying top form of the season, five members of the Freshman squad swept all but three titles in the University Wrestling Championships at the Indoor Athletic Building...
...Harvard piled up point after point in the early events and steadily increased their lead over the Elis, the possibility of Harvard victory grew into a probability. And with this the volume of applause steadily grew. It burst out when Rus Greenhood won the dive; when it was announced that Hutter would swim the 440; and when that lad placed second and thus assured a Crimson triumph it reached unbelievable heights. Harvard had gone swimming-crazy...
Then Mary Cheffey, in the play the secret bride of a V.M.I. first-classman, burst in the room: "What is this, an interview? How cute!" She smiled at a delicate question and said: "I'm used to being pregnant eight time a week, but I get embarrassed when the audience laughs...