Word: thunder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Satan loomed tall as a tower; his eye was a jewel, his voice was thunder. On the stage of the Chicago Auditorium he stood, for the first time this year. He was Feodor Chaliapin, giant Russian basso, appearing in Boito's Mefistofele. Louder than ever boomed the great voice; the mountainous man, lithe for all his bulk, stalked, the incarnation of sinister and engaging evilness upon the boards. In one of his greatest roles he outdid himself. He suited his bones to the music of his throat, executed a physical fugue; in the Brocken scene, he boiled, surged like...
Soon after the opening of the plenary meeting, Proposal A was settled by referring it to a commission for examination. But thunder clouds began to accumulate as discussion of Proposal B started. Mr. Porter had resolved to end the opium scourge. "Only by doing that," said he, "can we put sunshine and happiness into millions of homes where misery and squalor exist." Several minutes were filled with uproarious applause...
...general election, which is to end at the polls on Dec. 7, began to make its thunder heard. &182; Chancellor Wilhelm Marx, leader of the Catholic or Centre Party, opened his campaign at Berlin by attacking the Nationalists (Monarchists) and their demand for the publication of a denial of Germany's War guilt. Said he: "If we strive to have the Versailles self-confession of War guilt annulled, we do so simply for moral reasons. It would be fatal selfdelusion to believe that, if we succeeded in having that self-confession annulled, we should be liberated from the obligations...
Satire thrives on censorship. The Spanish Directorate, whose malefactions unleased the thunder of Blasco lbanex, has now awakened the more subtle spirit of Dean Swift. Gulliver in this case is Bagaria, the famous cartoon'st of El So, a Madrid daily, and the scene of his remarkable travels is neither Brobdingnag nor the Houyhnhnms--but the more pertinent Mars. Daily letters describing in detail the condition of Martian life and Martian morals have been published in El Sol. Baraglas inferences of Mars correspond suspiciously with the present state of Spanish affairs. "Ninety percent of the Martians are soldiers...
...play will prompt in lowbrows the gnawing of baffled discontent. They will want to know what it is all about. The so-called intellegenzia will find in it flashes of finesse and faithful beauty. The rest is rain and thunder of a very cloudy evening...