Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly in the dead of night last week motorists in open sport cars began dashing about London on a Belisha Beacon hunt. Passengers with air guns pinged at the big orange globes which burst in showers of tinkling glass. When Scotland Yard counted up next morning 26 Belisha Beacons were out and no motorist had been caught...
Last week, in a libel suit against the Evening Star, Sir Oswald was telling a London jury that he had said no such thing. Nervous, irritable, proud, derisive under cross-questioning by pince-nezed Norman Birkett K. C., the No. 1 British Blackshirt burst out, "We have no machine guns, armored cars or airplanes but, considering our allegiance to the King, we should easily get them if the Government failed to resist a Communist attack." The jury approved Sir Oswald's candor by awarding him $25,000 damages...
...many facets of human emotion are here portrayed with an insight and an almost Biblical beauty. This is stark, feeling drama consummately acted and constructed by the pen of man who speaks from the abyssmal depths of soul-stirring experience. As Jew Suss, Conrad Veidt outdoes himself in a burst of histrionic magnificence rarely the fortune of the screen to present...
...recommend to Mr. Cheringt, on, with all the sweetness that I can muster in a somewhat sorely tried nature, that he pay a little more attention to facts before he burst shrieking into print again. He blithely mentions "former Advocate contributors and many others among the long-suffering reading public" as feeling the need for a critical forum. Only one Advocate writer, by no means "former," is represented by an article in the Critic, and he asked and freely obtained my permission to contribute to the new magazine...
...Reason: a flood which boiled around Government House for miles. Inconvenient, unpopular and sparsely populated, the seven-year-old "Garden Capital" has cost over $50,000,000. Dominion officials felt that His Majesty's third son should see it, barely got him into Government House before the flood burst...