Word: thunderbolts
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...March a rumble of warning came when seven banks suspended payments. The first thunder clap (TIME, April 18), was the announcement by Japan's richest woman, Mme. Yone Suzuki that her enormous importing and exporting firm would delay payments on its $250,000,000 obligations. Forthwith came another thunderbolt-suspension by the great Bank of Taiwan, chief creditor of Suzuki...
...Gabriele announced recently that he will not stir from his literary workshop at Gardone until All Saints' Day (Nov. 1). "Nothing," he declared, "shall interrupt my daily labors save an unanticipated thunderbolt...
Arturo wields the baton, Benito the thunderbolt. Arturo Toscanini, most famed of Italian opera conductors, has refused for three successive years to allow his orchestra at the great Milan opera house, La Scala, to play "Giovanezza," the Fascist hymn. To the ears of Benito Mussolini reports have come that Toscanini has defended his refusal as follows: "Never! I refuse to turn La Scala into a market place for Fascist demonstrations. They have the square outside and also the Galleria nearby for that, but while I conduct the Scala orchestra, it will remain the home of opera and never will...
...Dust Heap. A Canadian-Northwest melodrama in which the very scenery gets up and acts. In a brothel on the Yukon, the roof pulsates while two men struggle on it, the chimney disgorges a handcuffed hero, a thunderbolt comes right into the room and wrecks everything but the heroine's marcel waves, glass crashes, beams fall, audiences quake. On the opening night, the people sitting in the first row dodged...
After two years of guerilla warfare, Mustapha Kemal Pasha and his lieutenant, Ismet Pasha, drove the Greeks into the sea at Smyrna after a thunderbolt campaign in August, 1922. British troops at Chanak, on the Dardanelles and on the Ismid Peninsula, covering Constantinople, were faced by a threatening concentration of victorious Turkish troops. Lloyd George, genius of the Greek policy in Asia Minor and bitterest foe of the Turk in Europe, called on the Dominions to rally to the defense of the Straits and on the Balkan Nations to join in an anti-Turk crusade. The British public decided that...