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With such widespread objection to the status quo, those who directly control our statute books cannot afford to ignore the thunder on the left. Modification, a quibble at best, may or may not solve the problem. What is certain, however, is that Prohibition is distasteful to a great mass of our people and until it is altered to suit the majority it will not, as a law, be in accord with the democratic principles that theoretically bind the nation to its Constitution. Cornell Daily...
Wilbur Walter Hampden in "Richelieu". Plenty of blood and thunder, and for the must part well acted...
...Geki apparently make their appeal to Eastern lovers of blood, thunder and lurid display. Their psychology seems about as complex, to untutored Western eyes, as that of The Perils of Pauline or Shenandoah. The actors produce sobs and choked voices as easily as did the rural players of the '905 when informed that the dour gentleman in hip boots was about to foreclose the mortgage. Principal among the actors is Tokyjiro Tsutsui of Kyoto. Osaka and Nagoya, who stalks about in the dark robes of "The Shadow Man" and finally commits harakiri with a four-foot knife...
...fray, they have no need to glance up but identify each Senator by the sound of his voice. Appalling to some is the mere thought of the number of Senatorial voices, otherwise forgotten, which Reporter Shuey may recollect in his dreams. Even in waking moments, he recalls the ponderous thunder of Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, the swift clipped words of James Paul Clarke of Arkansas "who could touch 210 a minute," the bitter snarl of Marion Butler of North Carolina...
...Papal thunder rumbled over Western Europe, set off sympathetic detonations. In Paris, the French Protestant Federation held a service, protested against Russian persecution. Present was Dr. Eulage, the Russian Orthodox Metropolitan of Paris. Grand Rabbi Israel Levy of France sent a representative. In London, the arch-Tory, arch-Anglican Morning Post conceded: "We shall not in this case complain if the Archbishop of Canterbury follows the lead of Rome...