Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the House of Commons destroyed all that is summed up by the old saw, "An Englishman's house is his castle." Under the Inskip act, as yet unenforced in full, British police may on mere "suspicion" obtain a High Court justice's order to burst into private homes and ransack them for "treasonable literature." Merely to "possess" such literature (as distinguished from writing, publishing or showing it to anyone who might be "treasonably seduced") is made a crime...
...uncle's collar factory, his break with the workers in the drying room, his seduction of Roberta, his bashful meeting with Sondra, his wild joy when Sondra proposes to him, his wild despair when Roberta tells him she is going to have a baby. In a final burst of speed, the drama skips the actual murder, winds up with a half-symbolic, half-realistic trial scene, which concludes with the voices of the jury sending Clyde to the electric chair...
Indispensable to any high academic ceremony are the red doctoral hoods of Oxford. To Oxford, therefore, Heidelberg's Rector Magnificus Wilhelm Groh last month sent an invitation for the June birthday festival. Immediately a storm burst in the British Press. Indignantly the Manchester Guardian pointed to a list of 44 potent professors who had been cast out by Heidelberg for racial and political causes. To the London Times the philosophical Bishop of Durham gravely wrote: "It cannot be right that the universities of Great Britain, which we treasure as the very citadels of sound learning ... the vigilant guardians...
Other mustards with guns had meanwhile burst into the home of 81-year-old and proverbially lucky Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi. To compare him with Secretary of the U. S. Treasury Andrew William Mellon at the zenith of that statesman's fame as "The Greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton" would not be far off the mark. As Mr. Takahashi's son, who works in Manhattan, said last week, "Father was always trying to balance the Japanese budget even when we were still little children." Tall and vigorous, emphatically the Great Takahashi, this elder statesman leaped...
Still other young mustards with machine guns had by this time burst into the bed chamber of Viscount Makoto Saito, Lord Keeper of the sacred Privy Seal of His Imperial Majesty the Son of Heaven, Emperor Hirohito. Old Saito had been a valiant admiral and from 1932 to 1934 was Premier of Japan. Two machine guns now poked their snouts in his direction and youthful mustards were at the triggers...