Word: thunder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Harvard team takes the field this afternoon, there will be no lack of volleyed thunder to meet them...
...judges have become widely known because of the part they had in any given trial. Sir George Jeffreys, Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, "whose yell of fury sounded like the thunder of the Judg ment Day," after presiding (1685) at a series of trials known to history as the "bloody assizes," gained what Macaulay has described as "an unenviable immortality." (Macaulay's History of England, chapter IV.) Kenesaw Mountain Landis, tsar of professional baseball, became a national character when, as U. S. District Judge, Northern District of Illinois, he tried (1907) the Standard...
...yell of fury that "sounded like the thunder of Judgment...
...Last season it was Pierre Monteux, volcanic, sensational, whose introduction of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps was a dramatic event. Now comes a man whom they heralded in Moscow with bombs and cheers and acclaimed in Paris with appreciation even more explosive. What will he do? Great words thunder in the index...
...Williamstown, Mass., a group of men gather yearly. They carry dignity in their countenances, destiny in their briefcases. They are the members of the Institute of Politics. When they talk, huge words thunder in the index ; nations rise up or crumble down ; tall Troy is burned again. Williamstown, sentinelled with maple trees, smiles at the Berkshires...