Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would it not be better to refer to our "recession" as a "return to normal" after the unusual postwar highs . . . ? Many businessmen, wishfully thinking, seem to have taken these highs for normal business and are now crying because the balloon has burst as we all knew it would...
...except for a few sickly sketches in the Hawthorne manner but without the Hawthorne skill, James, wrote few ghost stories until he was 48. Then he burst out with a spate of them. Editor Leon Edel speculates that this middle-aged absorption in the supernatural helped James compensate for the critical and popular rejection of his later novels and dismally unsuccessful plays ; in the ghostly stories, James could work off his resentments, regrets and anxieties...
Robin Hoodwinked. In Chicago, confronted by an armed robber, Mrs. Josephine Halper burst into tears and wailed: "I need bread and he asks me for money!", wheedled a dollar from the outlaw and gave it to her son who promptly lost it in a bingo game...
Amid shouts of "Vive Petain/" from the audience, Belleval denounced the proceedings as a "dishonor to France," proposed a token bid of one franc for each item on sale, so that the objects might be returned to Petain. The offer was turned down. The indignant audience burst into the Marseillaise. Fifty policemen finally cleared the hall. Once more the Marshal's belongings would gather dust. The old man would scarcely have found use for them, anyway...
...mind gave way briefly at the moment of his greatest promise, and who was taken to the asylum by Emerson himself; of another brother, Charles, supposedly the most gifted of the family, who died on the eve of his marriage and at whose grave, according to one account, Emerson burst into a short, near-hysterical laugh...