Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lionel wanted to tell Ethel over the radio: "We brought a big red apple for you, but John drank it." The line was cut from the script. So with many heavy Lionelesque gasps and wheezes he told how Ethel had helped him into his first big part when "I burst like a chrysalis on Broadway and knocked them for a row of Chinese pagodas. . . . I've never been so good since.'' With a melancholy, boot-reaching sigh he then exclaimed, somewhat irrelevantly: ''The corn is green. The corn is green. How green is the corn...
...United States," he began, "who felt young until he receifed his physician's bill. Dot vas so high he suddenly felt old again.'' Voronoff stalked out in a dudgeon, swore he would never attend another meeting where Dr. Carlson was present. But Ajax got a burst of applause and an enthusiastic kiss from a bearded French scientist...
Once at a meeting, a number of faculty members charged the University with not giving certain of its teachers secure tenure of their jobs. President Hutchins claimed that this practice kept them on their toes. "Vot you mean." Ajax burst out, "is dot it keeps dem on deir knees...
...automobile it was only a minute or two from the field to the wreck. Trip 6, burst asunder like a watermelon, lay not 200 feet away from a schoolhouse in the little village of Bridgeton. The plane was broken in two, the two parts nearly at right angles. Amazingly, ten of her passengers were alive. Among them worked Stewardess Mary T. Eshbach, shaken up, cut. but still on her feet. The eleventh passenger, a T. W. A. employe, lay dead near by, crushed by a telephone pole. Not far off was the body of Captain Scott. Somehow, it appeared...
...country was enjoying comparative quiet. A transport had shuttled him from Lisbon to a western England airport. As the plane came down, Mr. Willkie was impatiently striding up & down the aisle; the bump of the landing threw Mr. Willkie flat. Back on his feet and brushed off, he burst out of the cabin door. "I never felt better in my life," he exclaimed. To reporters who knew who he was but wanted to know what he was, he said, "I am just Wendell Willkie," and hopped off to London by another plane...