Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beale was ready to lead a minority truly convinced that the Episcopal Church is no more Protestant than the Church of England or the Eastern Orthodox Church and therefore should not so call itself. When Dr. Beale left the rostrum the House of Deputies broke two precedents. It burst into tumultuous applause, and its president, ZeBarney Thome Phillips, chaplain of the U. S. Senate, announced that Dr. Beale might resume his speech when he felt able, despite a parliamentary rule to the effect that no delegate can speak twice on the same subject. But Dr. Beale spoke no more, explaining...
Result of the fight was a compromise, on "modified" vertically so happily worded that the rank & file at the convention burst into cheers as it was announced...
...more successful than the first three. Then for the first time in his life Upton Sinclair had a little luck. He got a publisher to send him out to Chicago to investigate working conditions in the packing industry. The result was The Jungle, the biggest literary bomb burst since Uncle Tom's Cabin. Sinclair made $30,000, a huge name for himself as a muckraker. President Theodore Roosevelt wanted him on the commission which laid the groundwork for the Meat Packing Law of 1907. Sinclair refused, but kept the pot boiling to such a pitch in magazine articles that...
...Sept. 10 the San Francisco Chronicle burst out with a streaming black headline: LAMSON WINS NEW TRIAL. It would be hard to guess who was most astonished: Hearst's San Francisco Examiner which apparently had been badly scooped or Chief Justice William Harrison Waste of the California Supreme Court or David A. Lamson, sitting in his death cell at San Quentin Prison. Last year a San Jose jury had found the young Stanford University Press salesmanager guilty of murder after it refused to believe his story that his wife Allene had slipped in the bathtub and fatally fractured...
Hardly had the French public finished reading resumes of this strange document when the Case of Paul Mariani, "the second Stavisky," and the mysterious death of Fong Wang Dong burst all over the nation's headlines...