Word: cataclysmal
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...view of New York's traditional loyalty to the sachems of Tammany Hall,--a loyalty that is usually as flaming and fierce, though occasionally as fickle, as hot young love,--and especially in view of the cataclysm for Republicanism that occurred last November, it may seem extraordinary that Republicans can have anything to do with any nominations, least of all for the New York Mayoralty. But a glance at the special situation in the city may show that the Republicans are in a position to hold a balance of power...
What Americans little realize is that the Coronation marks an economic and political triumph for Great Britain and the Dominions. Jarred by the cataclysm of Edward Windsor, British manufacturers and tailors for some time saw the blackness of ruin, but now that Lloyd's rates have sunk, look to the Coronation as the biggest boom to business since the Jubilee. Returns will probably be higher than from the other celebration and high enough to rocket England into a decade of prosperity...
...father's innocence and depraved by the lust for revenge; the judge, driven periodically mad by flitting shadows of remorse; and the three guilty men, one the brother of the young man's sweetheart, another a tubercular killer, and the third a bloody, slimy, bullet-pierced specter. The cataclysm that follows is as staggering as so highly explosive material permits...
Loudest sound in history is believed to be the explosion of the island of Krakatoa in 1883. Physicists estimate the noise of that cataclysm at 190 decibels...
...reign of the Emperor Valentinian, there occurred in an obscure part of the heavens, an explosion to which the eruption of Vesuvius was but as the striking of a match. Columbus discovered America and Washington fought the Revolution in complete ignorance of the cataclysm. Not until the year of grace 1934 did J. P. M. Prentice of Stowmarket, England, first observe the results of the convulsion, known to men as Nova Herculis. Over 10,000 observations of its progress have been made since, according to Leon Campbell instructor in Astronomy at the Observatory...