Word: thunderbolts
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...Smith's lively and been comment "Happiness," "The Thunderbolt," and "A Sleepless Night," Plays now running in Boston, ends a number to which it is a pleasure to accord high praise...
Kerensky's announcement that Russia was worn out by the strain of war and had resolved to leave the brunt of the fighting to her Allies came as a thunderbolt yesterday morning. And although by the afternoon it appeared that Russia was not making a separate peace, yet so unfounded and unjust were most of the charges made against France and England as to cast grave doubts upon Kerensky's sincerity and loyalty. He seems to forget that the war started in the East, and that Russia would long since have been crushed but for the aid given...
...attributes in the composition of the War group are a Roman corselet, from an original in one of the museums in Europe decorated with martial objects in low relief; a sword and helmet, shields, Roman faces, spears, etc., and a miniature fortress, with an American eagle, grasping a thunderbolt in his talons, surmounting the whole. The Peace design is composed of appropriate objects, such as books, an ink well and instruments of scientific study...
...Corb in's tale of the "Wide-eyed Moose on the Thunderbolt" is excellently told. The surprise is carefully treasured up till the end, and the reader who has followed the boasting hunters' fortunes can hardly fail to laugh aloud at their final discomfiture...
...side. Thus it must have looked when Tilly paused on the Terrace to look back at the glorious bon-fire he had kindled. The majestic ruin, majestic even in its downfall, bore in its glowing sides the marks of its history. Turenne's cannon have pounded these walls; the thunderbolt has smitten them again and again; French gunpowder has done its best to hurl those massive battlements skyward and has failed, though the Great Tower at the corner was blown up. The tooth of time has gnawed unceasingly, yet not all ungently, upon the ruin. From that gaping window Elizabeth...