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...near Knowsley Hall, vast Lancashire estate of Edward George Villiers Stanley. 17th Earl of Derby.* There is no other peer with whom the King would rather dine and sit up late over a whiskey-soda. But scowling heavens loosed a cloudburst just as the Royal Train drew in. Terrific thunder claps, incessant lightning and sheets of lashing rain kept Their Majesties aboard the train all night. Next day amid brilliant sunshine Lord Derby was their guest as they chuffed off to open the most exciting feat of British engineering in this decade-Queensway, longest and largest underwater tunnel...
Dartmouth's hopes for the baseball league pannant were given a temporary setback yesterday when old man rain decided to take a hand in the race for the League championship. Just after the covers had been taken off the field a thunder storm turned Soldiers Field into a juicy marsh, and in the interests of economy it was decided to spare the field and spoil the pennant...
...comes the sad part of the tale. The accidental upsetting of a goblet, and the consequent tinkling of broken glass precipitated violent action. In a black thunder-cloud of wrath descended His Majesty harsh words rasped as lightning flared forth; and the much-taken-aback Commander of the Carrot, feeling on a par with the meanest of his spud-skinning scullions slunk with his companion out of the abode of the Mighty with his tall between his legs. That is why Waistootts and He-Men have not recently been found in especial Presidential favor...
...announcement from Washington last week that $12,000,000 of Federal Emergency Relief Administration funds had been set aside to keep rural schools open took some of the wind from the conference's sails but none of the thunder from speakers' voices. Sounded were the same protests against school economies, the same warnings of national disaster which have been heard at every educators' conference for the past three years. "It is quite as important to balance the nation's life as to balance the nation's budget," cried University of Wisconsin's President Glenn...
...deserted their desks, streaked through the hallways, tried to elbow their way inside. Lights glared while newsreel cameras waited. Senators basked in more publicity than they had had in months. Promptly at 10:30, bareheaded and wearing a grey suit without a vest, Col. Lindbergh strode in amid a thunder of applause. He shook hands with Chairman McKellar, sat down stiffly in a red leather chair, flipped through a copy of the bill, drummed his fingers on the table, smiled. Brisk and businesslike, the flyer identified himself as technical adviser to Transcontinental & Western Air and Pan American Airways, said...