Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Mr. Lewis testified that he was unable to remember the exact date on which he first committed adultery with Lady Campbell, her 21-year-old son Douglas burst into loud guffaws. Lady Campbell accused her husband of taking Son Douglas on a round of houses of ill fame and of boasting that he-Sir Malcolm Campbell-had seduced a tea-shop waitress. Lady Campbell said that her husband once showed to their grown daughter a family heirloom, an obscene antique watch inside the case of which two nude figures embraced...
...contemplation of eternal truths. It had no place in the Church service. In this situation one can sense the death-rattle of religious music; already dying, it must have perished unwept when the source that nourished it dried up. With the advent of the Restoration, a corresponding burst of secular music was due. If there had been any trend toward a revitalization of Church music, it would have been stifled by the personality of the king. When Charles II attended church, he did not want music that expressed the inner essence of the ritual. He wanted to be amused...
...substitute for religion and boy friends, she turned to Swinburn's poetry. Youngest son Frank, although his father's pet, was addicted to melancholy, once burst out: "Nobody loves me in my own house." There was friction between her parents, though it was oblique or hidden. A characteristic tiff came about when Mrs. Thomas, inspired by Tolstoi's My Religion, began giving handouts to any and all beggars. Said Dr. Thomas at last: "I admire Tolstoi in many ways, but he has no common sense, and he lives in the country...
...signs all point to the conclusion that the battleship boys are playing on current fears to puff out their chests like Aesop's frog who burst trying to look like a bull. Our navy is now adequate for defense, and even Admiral Taussig doesn't claim it should be anything else. Americans love newsreel shots of new battleships, but Ann Sheridan is just as photogenic and not nearly so expensive...
...judge; in his suite in Detroit's Book-Cadillac Hotel. Jessel's friend U. S. Minister to Canada James H. R. Cromwell gave the bride away. Shouted the happy bridegroom as he tried to put the ring on the wrong finger of Mrs. Jessel III, who burst into giggles: "Somebody give my wife a drink before she falls on her beautiful puss...