Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot, however, he has successfully overcome any dangerous tendencies toward skilful craftsmanship, and has turned out a most amazing burst of oozy sentiment. The jacket description of the plot follows: "Temporarily bored with civilization, its services, its ease and its sophisticatons, Walter Overlook breaks away from hs successful business in New York, and plays hookey in the Maine farming country, in the very house where he was born. After fifteen years he meets his boyhood sweetheart and finds her perfect in her country setting, but no longer of his world. This experience has an unexpected ending...
...Prince Albert was meanwhile escorted and jostled about the campus by embryo dentists, and finally by almost the entire student body, which at first chanted, "Here Comes Dear Bertie!" but finally burst into, "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow...
...storm of industrial insolvency which had been gathering over Japan since the disastrous earthquake of 1923, burst last week and forced the resignation of Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki's Cabinet...
...itself is a none too inspired dramatization of scenes from "The Pickwick Papers", but it is blessed with what the billboards advertise--and for once correctly--as "a cast that Dickens himself would have chosen". The first night audience, harboring ominous misgivings as to a twentieth century Pickwick, burst into relieved applause when the curtain rose on the excellent representation of the court of the White Hart Inn, and kept applauding as it saw Sam Weller, boots in hand, in amorous discourse with Betsy, the chambermaid. And Sam and Betsy proved to be no less accurately recreated than the other...
...refueling for the next hop, to San Diego and the Pacific, lay in still water surrounded by a Joseph's coat of many colors-spilled oil. From a rowboat full of boys nearby fluttered a yellow butterfly, a lighted match. Poof! The Joseph's coat burst into flaming flags...