Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles long connecting Venice with the mainland. As he stepped ashore a small Balilla (Fascist Scout) squirmed between policemen's legs and ran up to // Duce panting "Please sign my Fascist card!" Out came the Dictator's fountain pen and at this pause the Venetian crowd burst into huzzahs and swept police aside in a scramble toward the Leader. Four tall gondoliers pounced on small Benito Mussolini, raised him shoul der high and carried him to his motor car. Cynics observed: "Those gondoliers were detectives!" Zipping out of Venice, 77 Duce made for historic Villa Pisani once used...
...direct breach of good faith" and, after rehearsing the many moves of smart Dr. Schacht to beat Germany's creditors down, concluded by comparing him to "the murderer who, having slain both his parents, pleaded for mercy on the ground that he was an orphan." In the general burst of temper small notice was taken of the moratorium facts:. 1) Germany suspends from July i until further notice transfers into foreign currencies of interest on her medium and long term debts, including the Dawes Loan 7% and the Young Loan 5½% series; but 2) all interest payments...
...House restaurant last week Richard Lawson and Walter Roberts engaged in argument. Like shells from a field gun a bottle of catsup and a bottle of Worcestershire sauce catapulted across the room and burst. Three glasses and a finger bowl were shattered by the explosion. Then Headwaiter Roberts discharged Waiter Lawson...
...sullen sky, 70,000 Catholic priests, nun, 8 monks, seminarians, students, lay folk, Papal nobility and members of the Holy Name Society and Sodality of the Blesses Virgin Mary gathered along nearby streets to parade past the reviewers into the Stadium. They began marching. And suddenly the sun burst forth. It shone on the marchers, hotter and hotter. Not until they had watched the parade for three hours could Archbishop Curley and his party gather up their trains and skirts and swing in line to enter the Stadium...
...adopted a plan of union, which cannot become final in less than two years, with the United Presbyterian Church of North America which has 1,121 congregations and 242,996 members. United Presbyterians are called "Psalm-Singers" because their church admits no hymns. Having voted this merger, the commissioners burst into the Doxology and "I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord...