Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no suitable role for him in the operetta, based in part on the Barbara Frietchie story.* So the manager wrote in a speaking part for him. Sugar Chile, already a movie veteran (No Leave, No Love), brought the house down when he fell on his knees and burst into tears before Barbara Frietchie. But most of the audience had really come for Sugar Chile's between-the-acts boogie-woogie. Last week My Maryland did an unexpected business at the box office...
...afraid they will stay on after the 71-year old boss retires from the municipal whirl. Of payroll padding, the Finance Commission reported in 1945 "that the identity of some subordinates is unknown even to their immediate superiors." With great eclat, Curley has discharged groups of officials in a burst of economy only to fill the vacancies in the succeeding weeks with his henchmen and not a few of his family...
...relay foursome of Fox, Killoran, All Weatherhead, and especially a burst by Art Sicular on the last leg, edged the Eli's more on start and precision than on open speed...
...hours later, the doctor rushed excitedly across the hospital grounds, burst into the medical chief's house and cried: "He's sleeping! He's sleeping! The pain has stopped...
...Connor plant, a low, white brick-fronted building, simply disintegrated. Its roof rose into the air and flew apart, its framework splintered, its walls bulged and burst in one enormous moment of concussion and incandescence. The walls and roofs of nearby buildings were smashed; automobiles caved in on the streets...