Word: thunder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thunder on the Left (adapted by Jean Ferguson Black; Henry Forbes, producer). Christopher Morley's story, which 100,000 people have bought since it was published in 1925, is a strange and lovely book. One of the strangest qualities has now been revealed for the first time: it is adaptable to the stage...
...every Turkish city and major town the dawn came up one day last week with the earth-shaking thunder of a 100-gun artillery salute. Three days and nights of sleepless rejoicing, songs, dancing in the streets and every sort of Turkish whoopee began by express order of the Ghazi Mustafa Kemal, blond "Victorious Mustafa the Excellent...
...make the captain holystone the deck, he kills the sober ringleader and is killed himself. Like all revolutions, the mutiny swings rapidly Left and toward the captain's beautiful widow. At the end of its swing it meets the mate who has gotten a pistol. Ac companied by thunder, lightning, howls and pistol shots, he gets control of ship and sweetheart...
...years ago at Crafton. Tex., Amon Carter used to sell sandwiches on the station platform at Bowie, newspapers on the Fort Worth streetcorner where now rises the office building of the Star-Telegram, which he bought eight years ago with money made in cattle, oil, advertising. The presses which thunder all day long in Taylor Street are named after his children...
...love-affair of Heloise and Abelard not simply by the dusting and patching of documents but by putting together many a vanished two and two. The result, as any reader may verify without benefit of historical knowledge. seems historically true. And though its horizon is ringed with the theological thunder of that far-off day, its medieval scholastic air is not oppressive but exhilarating. Peter Abelard is an exciting book...