Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down with Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff and negotiated the terms of an Eastern Pact of Mutual Assistance between France and Russia to which Germany and Poland were invited to adhere (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934) The pact amounted to an agreement that, if any Eastern European State burst out of its frontiers, the others would join in squelching it. Adolf Hitler refused to have anything to do with such a pact, and Berlin's influence in Warsaw made Poland turn it down...
...There is a dramatic moment [at Radcliffe]; one Saturday morning when a miserable young woman in the second row cannot instantly give the meaning of the word "as," fired at her by "Kitty," who has just burst into the room like a bombshell. While she tries to muster breath for a reply, "Kitty"-overshoes just removed going on again-scorchingly informs us that he cannot afford to waste an hour with a group of girls who apparently know nothing about Shakspere. The bang of the door upon his angry retreat is an effective spanking administered to our abysmal ignorance. After...
Until William Saroyan burst from his cell last year with a whole series of yells, Dikran Kouyoumdjian (Michael Arlen) was the only Armenian writer U. S. readers were aware of. Apart from their ancestry the two have little in common. Michael Arlen, called brilliantine if not brilliant, has taken all Mayfair for his province. William Saroyan is astounded, delighted, agonized by the mystery of his own breathing. His first collection of outbursts was called The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (TIME, Oct. 22, 1934). His second is even more appropriately titled Inhale & Exhale...
...sudden burst of unseasonably fine London weather is responsible for setting the Hiltons, their two daughters, son, maid and terrier on a frolic for 16 lively hours. Forsythia and iris are blooming, and to love all hearts turn lightly save that of the Hilton's cleaning woman who ominously declares: "The first spring day Is in the devil...
...made his Metropolitan debut the afternoon of Feb. 17, 1926. But a few hours later he was almost forgotten when Marion Talley first appeared on the same stage, won front-page headlines as a homespun Missouri miss who at 19 was deemed worthy of opera. The Talley bubble soon burst, while Melchior went on to be known as the Great Dane, partly because of his artistic prowess, partly because of his bulk (250 lb.). In Denmark Melchior ranks as a national hero. He was brought up by Kristine Jensen, a Danish "Fanny Farmer," who cared for him after his mother...