Word: thundered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steamy coast town of Acapulco. As he is driving to Acapulco with the owlish, observant Juana, a storm drives them into one of Mexico's closed churches, where Howard builds a fire, cooks meals, despite Juana's fears of sacrilege. While the candles blow out, thunder rolls and lightning flashes, Howard sings, attacks the girl after she has ridiculed him. She tries to kill him. For some reason unknown to him Howard discovers that his voice has returned...
...right to play on New Year's day in the Rose Bowl by suddenly emerging in one of its "hot" spells. During the first period 85,000 fans shivered in the rain as the teams tentatively tired each other out. In the second period California's "Thunder Team" started rumbling. On two sustained drives, it carried over two successive touchdowns. They were enough. California won 13-to-0 and assured itself of the New Year's Day game-probably with Alabama...
Last week the first of the broadcasts, employing music (by WPA Musician Rudolph Schramm) and a blood & thunder script (by Broadway Playwright Bernard Schoenfeld). told of the departure from Santo Domingo of three conquistadors, Pizarro, Cortes and Balboa, to search for gold on the mainland. Its dramatic climax: his following reduced by fever and cowardice to twelve men, Pizarro faces toward Peru on the sands south of Panama, shouts: "We are 13 against the jungle! . . . Thirteen against the heathen...
Struggling through 88 minutes of blood and thunder, the Crimson and Green Varsity soccer teams wound up with the home forces on the long end of a 4-2 score here yesterday, while the Hanover Freshmen measured their Cambridge rivals to a 2-0 fitting...
...fairly plausible assumption that the legitimate stage is worth starving for, but that its illegitimate child should be called by the shorter name for such offspring, Miss Bennett as Terry Randall struggles through three acts and six scenes defending that creed. She sees her beau, an ill-mannered thunder-and-lightning radical, get enmeshed in the celluloid toils, and tells him where to go when he tries to sweep her off to his California paradise. She sees her best friend in the Footlight Club, the actress's refuge, escape from failure by way of poison. She sees a beautiful nitwit...