Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Abruptly last week into the House of Lords waddled the Lord Chief Justice with fury on his tongue for the Lord High Chancellor. "I have not been Lord Chief Justice for almost 13 years with my eyes closed!" burst out Baron Hewart before the astounded and, as usual, nearly empty House of Lords. "I see what is going on and I read what is going...
Died. Lieut. William Cunningham Reeves, 25, younger son of Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet; when the Army plane he was piloting nudged a treetop, nosed down, burst into flames; near Burlingame, Calif...
...Durable Goods and the End of the Depression." On the wall were charts of the depressions of 1873 and 1893. These the onetime Vice President of the U. S. used to illustrate his contention that a pent-up demand for the products of heavy industry had in both cases burst forth precisely five years and six months after the first stockmarket crash. Barked the good General: "The demand for durable goods . . . in a Depression, while it always rises last, always rises fastest. Accordingly, I suggest that not later than June or July of next year should be the beginning...
About 3:30 o'clock one morning last fortnight Miss George, in her Manhattan hotel room, received a telephone call from her husband. He had just arrived at Grand Central Terminal, he said, and would be right over. Few seconds later her door burst open to admit two detectives, a strange woman and Mr. Fowler. They found, according to the detectives, a handsome young man dashing half-dressed from the room and Miss George reaching for a blue negligee...
...harp plinks of "Just a Song at Twilight," 40 loyal crusaders trooped into a festive Manhattan dining room, burst out: "Happy birthday, dear doctor, happy birthday to you." Beaming across his dinner table on his 80th birthday was silvery, bright-eyed Dr. Charles Giffen Pease, founder-president of the Non-Smokers' Protective League. Bristling enemy of coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolates, meats, drugs, medicines and vaccination. All through the vegetarian banquet which followed, the 40 guests talked of Dr. Pease's successful campaign in 1909 to have smoking banned in New York City subways. No one had forgotten his subsequent practice...