Word: burstingly
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...springtime the buds of the fruit trees swell and swell. Finally there comes a point where they cannot swell longer, and they burst- the peach tree into warm pink bloom, the apple modestly, into flushed white flower. So is it with Hiram W. Johnson and with William G. McAdoo...
...revues now current in Manhattan were intent upon the discussion or display of feminine attraction and its results upon a fallible mankind. So intent were six of these that the Society for the Suppression of Vice began to move restlessly in its cocoon. There was danger that it might burst and become a full-fledged moth to eat through the linings of the managers' money bags. But no. The managers, the actors, the playwrights put their hard old heads together. A plan developed...
...Montreal Mr. George burst into golf. A correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor saw him make three perfect shots-a long, straight drive, a magnificent approach and a superb and final putt. Moved by sheer admiration the correspondent approached...
...brown curtains parted and out came a chunky little old man with a head something like Franz Liszt's portraits-the same high forehead, eagle nose and long gray hair. The audience burst into applause. . . The little man put his feet together and clasped his hands and bowed stiffly from the waist, looking very like the frog footman in Alice as he did so. The audience kept on applauding and he kept on bowing. . . . Then he sat down and began to play Beethoven's Pathetic Sonata...
...London, a band of rowdies burst into a narrow street thronged with auctioneers and buyers in a pet animal market, shouted " Earthquake ! Earthquake!" caused a stampede that injured 60 people and destroyed hundreds of caged canaries, cats, dogs, chickens, parrots...