Word: thundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lumber-camps. Theodore Dreiser has written his first novel in several years, "An American Tragedy," in two volumes. J. R. Dos Passos in "Manhattan Transfer," writing in a kaleidoscopic fashion that savours of James Joyce describes the life of New York--or a part of it. Christopher Morley's "Thunder on the Left" is well known and applauded. "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" by John Erskine is an entertaining and modern story of that fascinating lady after her return to Menelaus. Then there is "Bring! Bring!" by Conrad Aiken, good short stories with a bad title, a collection...
...interested in them. TIME has many virtues but I wish to speak particularly of your piquant, picturesque, poetical handling of our somewhat prosaic mother tongue. I think your ability in this line reached its climax in your issue of Nov. 16, p. 20, col. 3, when you say, "The thunder that darkly strode from the organ pipes . ..." Ah! that I might have been there to see! Weird, mystic shapes, tremulous, vibrant, sonorous, which "strode" with intangible form down the dim cathedral aisles. Why, friends, I am 77 years old and I haven't had such a thrill (literary thrill) since...
...contrast, the thunder and the lightning. Great Quarterback Guttormson kicked off for Washington and in a spurting run, a twinkling pass, the ball was back on his 17-yard line with agile Quarterback Pooley Hubert calling a new Alabama signal. The thunder awoke. Alabama's next pass was intercepted and Guttormson, Tesreau, Patton and Wilson plunged the ball back to a touchdown. In the second period they got another, in the fourth another...
...THUNDER ON THE LEFT?Christopher Morley?Doubleday, Page ($2). It is a children's party, Martin's tenth birthday. The imaginative little fellow invents all sorts of games for his guests: "Stern Parent," "Quarrelsome Children." Then Phyllis, one of the girls, says that grown-ups have a wonderful time. Wouldn't it be nice to be grown up? Martin has an idea for another game, "Spies"?to find out whether grown-ups really have a good time, so as to know whether one wants ever to be grown...
...Dictatorships to right of us, dictatorships to left of us, volley and thunder, expresses the present aspect of democracy in Europe at the present time," said Colonel J. C.'-Wedgewood, former British cabinet minister, to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...