Word: cataclysms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...substituted the old (LEFT CENTRE RIGHT). With heads like rock and feet like sheep, the human debris of the last quake quaked again, until the official seating arrangement was finally restored. Thus it was learnt that a class in geology can take an active part in a first-class cataclysm, and still have half an hour left for sleep or for hearing a lecture on the character and ancestors of the responsible Mr. Fate, who slyly escaped the danger zone...
...Santa Monica. All goes well until, some distance from land, he catches sight of Sylvia swimming beside him, without a bathing suit; he sinks without a trace. Mrs. Forgate poisons Dache. Just in time Author Roanoke goes back to New England : a few days later a last and greatest cataclysm swallows up California...
This dramatic cataclysm was prosaically described last week in an effort to show that it was true. Its describer was Dr. Alexander Du Toit of Johannesburg who, defending the widely held ''displacement hypothesis," brought into court recent studies of fossils, glacial records and sedi mentary rocks of southern lands now separated by water. So much alike are these records at corresponding stages, urged Dr. Du Toit, that they must have been deposited in one undivided land. But the geological record of the southern hemisphere as a whole is utterly different from that of the northern-which would show...