Word: thunder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mischievous Norse Fire-God of a shape transformable at will. Thor, God of War and Thunder, chained him up when he grew too obstreperous. But Loki will come again to lead forth the hosts of Hel at Twilight of the Gods...
...stopped paying attention without having stopped enjoying it. Director Bretherton arranged the story very smoothly. Betty Compson, and an unknown, dark-haired young man named Grant Withers play opposite each other. Assorted sound-shots: a crowd at a football game, a college dance where everyone sings, a stock ticker. Thunder (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Lined and grey, smeared with oil, misty with sentiment under its visored cap, the face at the window of the enginecab is Lon Chaney's. Coincidence turns the wheels. The engineer has two sons. One of them is killed. Lon Chaney, driving the train carrying...
While lightning struck the Prussian Diet, man-made thunder roared and echoed in the German Reichstag across the way. Most of the thunder came from bulky, rumbling Dr. Gustav Stresemann, Germany's quick-brained, bullet-headed Foreign Minister. Almost completely recovered from a long illness (TIME, July 9, 1928 et seq.), he had returned from pruning his prize roses to defend in his own fashion the Young Plan settlement of German Reparations. The Nationalists were, charging that the Plan will make Germany a "colony" of England and France...
Julie's story begins when she falls in love with an officer, socially her superior. After considerable blood and thunder set against the background of Napoleon's famed Russian campaign of 1812, the two do not marry. Instead the officer turns civilian, the girl remain's an army's bride; remains, says Author Gaye, "the spirit of Joan of Arc"-vivandiere. Author Gaye, like so many other young English novelists, especially female ones, has been inordinately praised by Arnold Bennett and Frank Swinnerton...
...Cincinnati, one Mrs. Bertha Simpson, in order not to wake her husband one stormy night last week, waited for a thunder clap to drown the noise of the revolver with which she shot herself...