Word: cataclysmal
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...unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground-Jeremiah, 25:33.) As to when the universal war will occur Judge Rutherford is vague. Few years ago he came a cropper by prophesying such a cataclysm for 1928. Two years later he deeded in perpetuity a ten-room house, two-car garage and a pair of automobiles in San Diego, Calif, to King David, Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, Samuel and other Biblical worthies, declaring he was confident they would shortly reappear on earth (TIME, March...
...policy of purchasing silver at artificial prices--a dubious policy for our international well being--is having serious effects in China. Although economists predicted an upheaval in China's silver market, Government financiers did their best to be little such predictions while the silver purchase act was pending. The cataclysm is now reaching proportions beyond even the most dire forecast...
...Politics has laid a heavy hand of wrath upon the benevolent Society of St. Tammany. Disinherited by the national democratic organization, harried by a Rooseveltian governor in Albany, and finally, in the ultimate cataclysm, kicked out of the city feed troughs, the society took to sack-cloth and ashes, fixed a Day of Atonement, and picked a Scape-goat...
...multitude of characters are picked up at intervals and followed long enough to make clear the peculiar problems of each, both in their relation to individual character and to the general pattern which was Paris in 1908. Always in the background is the "rumble of the distant drum", the cataclysm of 1914. Yet the reader is never made to feel that he is looking back; he is ever at the very wellhead of the deluge...
...prelude in which a man (Leslie Adams, the droll cuckold of Goodbye Again) bites a dog, a cataclysm which looses a series of news stories that never, never could have happened. Citizen & Mrs. Hoover leave the White House, but Mrs. Hoover (acidic Helen Broderick) does not depart without telling Dolly Gann what she thinks of her, nor does she forget to strip the place of spoons, portraits, electric toasters and the radio aerial. John D. Rockefeller (Clifton Webb) totters after his son with a knife when he learns the family owns Radio City. Mahatma Gandhi (Mr. Webb in a sheet...