Word: thunder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great dark blue clouds, which have been piling up over Mexico for some weeks (TIME, Oct. 29), at last discharged their lightning and rolled the deep raucous roar of political thunder...
...Lady is a flagrant example of the old-fashioned melodrama which regards the audience as a sponge. Taking this sponge in its powerful, primitive fingers, the play squeezes. Tears drip like rain drops after thunder. But despite the fact that The Lady is shamelessly sensational, acutely obvious, completely out-of-date, its capacity for engrossing entertainment has scarcely been equaled on the stage of the season...
...says the newspaper reader of today. Yet but a short distance out on the stormy Atlantic hovers romance in plenty; unsolved tragedies, unidentified bodies washed ashore, feminine accomplices and love interest, sudden fierce skirmishes on the high seas, in fact all the sundry trappings of blood-and-thunder yarns. All that lacks is a Stevenson or a Conrad to write the modern romance...
...pages of literature Samuel Johnson in particular was accustomed to turn roundly on such offenders, and shout them suddenly into embarrassed silence. The faithful Boswell himself, if report be true, offended on more than one occasion, thereby drawing down on his not too tactful head lightening and devastating thunder...
...thunder-charged political atmosphere of Mexico?Presidential conspirants...