Word: thunderclapping
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Winner just before the thunderclap of the Royal Hunt Cup was The MacNab, a 100 to 7 shot owned by John Arthur Dewar, nephew and heir of whiskey's Baron Dewar whose title died with him (TIME, April 21). In cinema theatres throughout Britain the flashed news that "their Majesties were standing a very short distance from where the lightning struck" led to much fervent singing of "God save our gracious King, Long live our noble King...
Came a hurricane of cheers, boos, whistles and the thunderclap banging of desks. Purple behind his pince nez, Prime Minister Tardieu shook his fist, shouted: "You have no right to say that!" Prudently President of the Chamber Fernand Bouisson clapped his silk hat on his head, stalked from the room. Chunky M. Herriot hopped down from the tribune, started down the stairway that faces the section where sit deputies of the right (Monarchist) wing. Instantly they were on their feet, rushed menacingly towards him. Then up rose Minister of War Andre Maginot, six-feet-seven and broad in proportion...
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...