Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.; his frequent campaign companions, Judge & Mrs. Samuel I. Rosenman; his yachting friend, Vincent Astor; his uncle, Frederic A. Delano; his bright young Brain Trust lawyer, Tom Corcoran, with a broad Irish smile, who made the evening so gay with his accordion that Basso Marvin Mclntyre burst into song. Among them circulated Mrs. Roosevelt in a white satin evening gown and Mother Sarah Delano Roosevelt, thoroughly enjoying the sweet cider...
That evening the huge Los Angeles Coliseum, 1932 Olympic stadium, was half-filled when Republican State Chairman Earl Warren arose to introduce Nominee Landon, who had not yet appeared. Spotlights picked out a distant gate, a band struck up Oh! Susanna, and into the stadium burst Alf Landon, upright in the back seat of an open car, waving his hat, grimacing under showers of confetti which pelted him as he circled the running track...
With his speech, the boos began again, creating a deep, ominous undertone in every burst of cheers. Nominee Landon fought back with loud voice and waving fist, hammering on nearly all his familiar themes the Constitution, the Supreme Court, the American Way, Spending, Regimentation, Relief Corruption, Taxation...
...case Germany is headed for that economic disaster which, by the wily stratagems of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the Fatherland has barely avoided so many times, it will be just as well for the blame to burst not upon Herr Hitler but upon Herr Göring, who has been a morphine addict, drinks Gargantuanly and is popular in a bluff, hearty fashion-the sort of man to whom Germans forgive mistakes. Minister-President Göring received last week the following send-off from Der Volkischer Beobachter, the personally-owned newsorgan of Chancellor Adolf Hitler to which all Nazi Party...
...events of Saturday should allay any doubts as to the interest of the students in the university's most popular sport. Any speculation as to whether the playing of the team was improved by the cooperation of the undergraduates or the unlooked for burst of joy was evoked by the superior performance on the field is to revive the argument of the chicken and the egg. Saturday's game has shown that there was nothing chronic in the team's previous ill luck, and that football played as a clean sport has lost none of its interest or effectiveness...