Word: thunder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Football games in the Autumn rumble gently through the end of September, thump through October, thunder through November until late in the month, on a bleak windy afternoon, the Autumn storm breaks with a great roar of band music and cheering voices. This is the afternoon when the four eyes of a nervous Army mule and a tattered Navy goat are alone too frightened to watch their teams tussle on a darkening field...
...incredibly swift and al, most inaudible violins, swinging and sighing through the measures of a bitter improvisation. The excitement of the cardgame, the quick, inexplicable chances of love and despair rise and fall; tbev are flashes of an ironic dangerous lightning, never followed! by the slow, loud rhetoric of thunder.' As in Fraulein Else, Rhapsody, None But the Brave, Author Schnitzler's understanding of humanity is unclouded with impurities of opinion or emotion. Profundities, in one meaning, are avoided. It is as if Authorj Schnitzler had decided that pro; fundities could never be more than inconclusive platitudes...
Although Dr. Morley is only 37 years of age, he has already written more than 25 books. Among these "Thunder on the Left," his most famous novel, "Pleased to Meet You" his play which was recently given in the Repertory Theatre, and "I Know a Secret," his latest book, which was written for children...
Later he retired to devote his time to writing. "Thunder on the Left", his most popular book, won him his reputation as a writer of colorful fantasy. His earlier books, including a number of volumes of familiar essays, grouped under such titles as "Pipefuls". "Shandygaff" and "Plum Pudding", and brief whimsical tales like "The Haunted Bookshop", "Parnassus on Wheels" have won him a large circle of admirers...
Christopher Morley, noted author, among whose well known works are, "I Know a Secret". "Thunder on the Left," "Pleased to Meet You" and "Where the Blue Begins", will speak at the Union on Thursday evening, December 15 at 8 o'clock, it was announced last night by Davidson Sommers, 1L, Graduate Secretary of the organization...