Word: thunderclap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Accompanied by a small thunderclap and two cinnamon clouds, a railway-mounted 14-in. coastal gun hurled a 1,560 Ib. projectile 25 miles out into Chesapeake...
...story of the Deluge was probably an hysterical account of a local flood at Babylon. The world and the waters and the sky were not created in seven days. The picture of Moses on Mt. Sinai was probably the hallucination of one scared by a thunderclap...
Should it happen, it would be a political thunderclap. Its boldness would be equalled only by the uncertainty of its effect, for it would be wholly unprecedented. Its folly would lie in staking much where nothing needs be staked; in prematurely disappointing many an ambitious man whose attachment Candidate Smith would need until November...
Afterward, in New York, Claire Ambler ended an attenuated affair and faced the hideous realization that she had lived for 25 years without getting married. Not daring to endure alone the depressing silence that followed this thunderclap of thought, Claire telephoned the swain to whom she had last addressed farewells. When, with him, she was suffering the ceremony of marriage, a churchful of people at her back, Claire achieved at last an emotion which was untheatrical as well as genuine. "She was uplifted with the happiness of a great reassurance; once more she knew that she had forgotten herself...
...attempt to build an orphan asylum in honor of Chamberlain Alving, deceased, the while his son's brain softens from inherited syphilis. As a play it is remarkable less for its profundity than for the technical mastery with which it swells through a gorgeous crescendo to a thunderclap climax. Interpretation of the Mrs. Alving's role by Minnie Maddern Fiske, 61, is different. What is usually a sad, ironical figure, she turns into a deftly satirical one. Though affording Mrs. Fiske's admirers an opportunity to exclaim once again over her genius for discovering comedy in almost...