Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King stole the show. When Defense Minister Brooke Claxton, club president, proposed a toast to "the King," the banquet pianist thought he could mean no other King but the Prime Minister, and burst into For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Grinning happily as the Reformers almost brought down the Blue Room ceiling with their cheers, King spoke vigorously for 45 minutes on the theme of the great Liberals Quebec has produced. To the list of "giants" headed by Laurier, King tactfully added the name of Quebec Liberal Leader Adélard Godbout, with whom he had "shared...
...last February the largest number of Freshmen in years attended the preliminary lacrosse meeting, and things began to look fairly bright for newly appointed coach George Hanford. As the weeks progressed, the team progressed with it, and prospects looked even brighter. Last Saturday, Hanford's carefully nurtued prospects suddenly burst into full bloom: the '51 squad flattened perennial powerhouse Exeter...
...mounting air of martyrdom showed in his manner, burst out in his speeches time & again. Earlier in the week, at Moline, Ill., his audience had laughed when he said they had been afraid to park their cars near the hall for fear they would be identified. "You laugh," he shouted furiously, "but I've seen it happen in other places...
Then Mae Reuther ran for towels, knelt, tried to stop the flow of her husband's blood. People burst into the kitchen. A neighborhood doctor arrived. Reuther said wildly: "Those dirty rats had to shoot a fellow in the back." An ambulance crew pushed in, carried him off to Grace Hospital...
...steeplechase water jump that produces five minutes of frustration-comedy as screamingly funny as a good Chaplin sequence. Horse after horse plops its resplendent rider into the drink, then surfaces with a burst of triumphant horse-laughter...