Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ordinarily about 40 or 50 convicts go "up the river" every day. But last week New York Central employees noticed a sudden burst of activity. Between 90 and 110 crooks per day were getting off at Sing Sing, and the strange part of it was, all of them seemed cheerful, anxious to reach their destination. It seemed almost like a stampede for incarceration-and that is what...
...diplomatic feelers into the Eastern Balkans, notably signalized last week by the bestowal upon Greek Dictator-President Pangalos of the Italian Great Cross. 2) Proposals to abolish inter-Little Entente customs control. 3) The perennial "Hungarian question" (i.e., Hungarians are perpetually talking about monarchy and hatching means to burst the encirclement of Hungary on three sides by the Little Entente). As the three Premiers sat down to deliberate these issues a telegram was handed to Czechoslovak Benes. It contained an order from the chiefs of his party (Czech National Socialist) that he assist it in an attack upon certain grain...
...down a twilit aisle, turned his face to look and, seeing nothing, passed on. A young prelate who had been sitting in that aisle was at the moment being led off to confinement between two Vatican gendarmes. Hearing the Pope's step he had sprung upon a chair, burst into a sacrilegious harrangue. The clever gendarmes did not attempt to eject him. Instead, they attracted his attention by making funny faces until the Pope had gone by. Then they arrested him. The unknown blasphemer suffered, it is said, from a temporary attack of insanity...
...greeted. He got to talking in one corner with Senators Walsh, Caraway, and Jones (of New Mexico), all Democrats, while Senator Kendrick of Wyoming was making a speech. Something very amusing must have passed among the four, for Senator Caraway poked Mr. Brookhart in the ribs and they all burst out laughing. Mr. Dawes rapped for order...
...would not think that the Yard is about to burst into bloom. Trunks stand at each entryway, and express trucks career and careen along paths where on ordinary days only a desultory laundry cart is now and then to be seen. The dingy, white lumber heaps that desecrate the greensward beneath them and the elms above, give no inkling that they will look much better in company with twilight and Japanese lanterns. Now they add a minor crudity to the normal grotesqueries of the Yard...