Word: rumblede
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
In London Westminster Abbey's caretakers crated the 600-year-old Coronation Chair in which George VI was crowned, and trundled it away. The British Museum closed; so did the National Gallery; and motor lorries filled with books and paintings rumbled out of London. Canterbury Cathedral's stained...
Instead, Mayor Jarman (himself a professional photographer and restorer of paintings) locked the doors of the room where the pictures were hung, imprisoning the artist's raincoat and lunch. Munnings retired, red-faced, returned presently with a motor lorry, demanded his own 15 can vases. Onto the lorry he...
When the bridge was finished, the armored divisions rumbled across to catch up with the troops converging east of Turin. Il Duce, who had flown his own plane from Rimini, watched the maneuvers from the air. He swooped low over the columns crossing the Ticino and was reported to be...
> The Territorial Army, fully mechanized, started on Britain's greatest peacetime maneuvers. Trucks, radio cars, ambulance convoys, cyclists rumbled through ordinarily quiet rural roads as 135.000 men began a fortnight's training period which will end with a "battle" with an "invading" army from Wales.
Old Senator Borah (74 last fortnight) opened the Senate fight to keep Franklin Roosevelt haltered by getting up and reading one of his rare written speeches. Two days before, the President had declared that U. S. policy is not only avoidance of war but prevention of it in all parts...