Word: thunderbolt
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...Japanese, but he had dared to cartoon the Divine Emperor, and he had placed the Son of Heaven in an attitude which made Japanese blood boil. What, Japanese wanted to know, was President Roosevelt going to do about it? A cablegram hurled from Tokyo with the urgency of a thunderbolt caught crinkly-eyed Japanese Ambassador Hirosi Saito at his U. S. country place in New Canaan, Conn., sent him scrambling back to Washington...
...random because he usually forgets what he has read before. His preternatural reluctance to talk about himself or other matters is one of the traits that forced sportswriters into an unparalleled display of nickname-coining last week. Among their inventions : Brown Bomber, Alabama Assassin, Sepia Slasher. Tan Thunderbolt, Detroit Dynamiter, Jolting Joe and Dead...
...Against this traitor Venizelos we have invoked the following injuries: the ulcers of Job, the whale of Jonah, the leprosy of Naaman, the bite of Death, the shivering of the dying, the thunderbolt of Hell, and the malediction of God and man. We shall call for the same injuries upon those who at the coming elections shall vote for the Traitor Venizelos, and we shall further pray for their hands to wither and for them to become deaf and blind...
...Carter Adams '36, captain of the team who is entering his last meet before departing for Alaska, will load a five-man team in the Massachusetts Championship which consists of a downhill race off Graylock Mountain. The race will be run on the Thunderbolt which is a new one and one-fifth mile trail falling 1800 feet. The Harvard team will meet strong competition in the Schussverein and Hauhgeberge teams composed of Harvard graduates. The men who will compete in this meet are Robert T. Shaw '37, Charles S. Rogers '37, Dunbar Carpenter '37, H. Adams Carter '36 (Captain...
...quarter-century Zion's town officials have been Voliva puppets. Last fortnight voters went to the polls, scratched three independents into the school board. Wrathfully last week Overseer Voliva tossed back a vengeful thunderbolt. Closing his parochial school (enrollment : 950), he declared that the town's two public schools (enrollment: 500) could take care of his ousted pupils or shut down...