Word: thuds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Curious observers pressed closer to the four to investigate what so absorbed these mighty intellects. A flash in the sun, and a thud in the ground disclosed the answer.--mumblety pegl...
...ancient Syrian city of Antioch last week a batch of League of Nations observers huddled on their hotel balcony while the street directly before them echoed with pistol shots, wild Turkish and Syrian yells, the thud of brickbats, groans. When police finally cleared the cobbled street, one slippered rioter was dead, eight others gravely injured...
...Thud, thud, thud, go automobiles over many a brand-new concrete highway which looks as smooth as a table. Reason for this phenomenon, which has exasperated many a driver, is the bulging of the substance filling the expansion joints between the big rectangles of concrete. Like most solids, concrete expands in hot weather, contracts in cold. Hence the joints require a resilient substance which will fill the gap completely no matter how the concrete behaves. Most substances tried by road-builders have had two faults-they bulged in hot weather, left openings for seepage in cold...
...whole, despite an excellent cast, "Ladies in Love" falls into the class of lower mediocrity with a definite and final thud. Simone Simon has lost all the appeal she had in "Girls Dormitory," and although we any pleased to see Janet Gaynor back again her return is wasted on a poor show...
Nothing better illustrates the fallacy of the "big double bill" type of program than the current offering at the Paramount and Fenway. "The Widow from Monte Carlo" tries so hard to be a smart, sophisticated, gay comedy, and it falls flat with a dull thud that resounds throughout the theatre...