Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just been dropped from CWA. A bank had just foreclosed on the home, beach tearoom and land which Mother Pepper had inherited from her father. While the other ten Peppers sat gloomily thinking of their misfortunes, Son Donald slipped quietly out of the house. Few minutes later he burst back, shouting that there were heaps of the stuff on the beach just opposite the tearoom. The whole family rushed out, scooped...
...with Lieuts. Frank L. Howard and Arthur R. Kerwin Jr., on a practice mail flight to Salt Lake City. The ship circled the town once, headed west from the airport when the motor began spitting. Slanting downward the plane whipped through a high tension line, bored into the ground, burst into flame. Lieuts. Howard & Kerwin were cremated...
...brutally realistic first act; the race-prejudiced crowd in the courtroom; two foul-tongued prosecuting attorneys who denounce "Jew money from New York." After listening to Lawyer Rubin's solemn summation, the jury goes off-stage to bring Playwright Wexley's last curtain down with a burst of obscenely scornful laughter. A better playwright than most polemists, Playwright Wexley lost his temper in They Shall Not Die. Yet somehow his journalistic vehemence does not ruin his play. Handsomely mounted by the Theatre Guild and fervently acted by an enormous cast, it succeeds in its purpose to arouse opinions...
...squeeze. On the decks, in the rigging, in Professor Schmidt's beard, a heavy load of ice formed. Last week the ice pack broke the Chelyuskin's steel heart. From bow to engine room the port side stove in amid great grindings and crunchings. The sudden cold burst the steam pipes. A plank swept the chief steward overboard...
...opening day he attached 18 rockets to the lower wings of his biplane, roared off into an inside loop. For a few moments the small night crowd saw what appeared to be a giant glowing cigar butt trace a circle in the dark sky. The circle then swooped downward, burst into flames and Stunter Nelson screamed just once as he was incinerated...