Word: thuds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom hit Boston yesterday with a thud as of a rotten tomato and with odor to match. Poor gags, far-fetched puns, drawn-out dialogue, and a well-nigh non-existent plot combine to make "Harvard, Here I Come" as a rather tedious ordeal. Except for the local interest in Hollywood's presentation of what bodes ill to become its favorite subject, Harvard, the show is merely another low metabolism slapstick comedy...
...Philippines, behind Douglas MacArthur's embattled lines, mercurial little Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina was sworn in for his second term as President of the Philippine Commonwealth. From his underground refuge he could hear the muffled slam of big guns, the faint tattoo of antiaircraft fire, the soft thud of Japanese bombs falling on his land, his people...
...paper clips, everything small and bothersome came out of his watch pocket--but no dimes. He reached for his wallet and pulled out a dollar, then had to wait in line for the cashier. Just as they got through the turnstile, the subway's doors shut with a grim thud and it nosed down into the dark underground passage. They got the next one all right, but it was so filled that Vag couldn't get her a seat till after Charles Street. Then, when the eight minutes were up and the car jolted to a stop at Park...
...20th Century. The late Lytton Strachey's roguish mandarinism seemed gently but fatally borne along on the undertow of a dying civilization. George Dangerfield writes with the desperate blandness of a man who has heard even in the U.S. (where he has resided since 1931) the thud of London's falling walls and the stridency of gutting flames. Victoria's Heir is a biography both of Edward VII and of the critical period of European history through which he dallied and diplomatized-the period which prepared those flames...
...impossible to talk or rather to be heard, but above the din can be heard the methodical thud... thud... thud as (three words censored) bombs explode about a mile distant. There is no respite from the gunfire now. Wheece... a bomb glides right over as and penetrates a lawn 500 yards away; its explosion, fortunately muffled by the soft earth, makes every house in the district reel and shudder. Bombs thud down one after the other. An incendiary bomb smacks onto our roof blinding for a moment and splashing melted metal and flame, but with the aid of a rake...