Word: thundered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next week of a competition for all boards, the Harvard Radio Workshop has started its fifth year of undergraduate extracurricular study of radio drama techniques. The Workshop's first essay into crime plays is "The Corpse in the Classroom," the opening drama in a collection of six blood and thunder tales to be presented over the college network in the near future...
...including a policeman, an A.R.P. warden, a British colonel and an Irishman, he apparently picked from the most fatuous stereotypes in Punch's files. He also forgot to provide any dramatic reason for his first act and frequently let his farce run at cross purposes with his blood & thunder...
During the Crimean War, the royal Britons visited their French ally, Napoleon III. "When Bertie knelt, in kilts, before the tomb of Napoleon I, the Parisian sky produced an authentic clap of thunder, and all the French generals burst into tears." It was the beginning of a life-long love for Bertie, but not for his father. Napoleon III "was simply not a respectable ally." For one thing, there had been that "rather dreadful féte champétre . . . when the Emperor disappeared all evening with Madame Castiglione in the shrubbery, and the Empress fainted with mortification...
Longstreet was still defending himself when he died in 1904. Last week on Seminary Ridge, on the site of his indecision, ground was broken for a monument to him. U.S. Army officers, his widow, Mary Pickford, a Confederate veteran took part in the ceremony; thunder crashed and lightning slashed the sky; troops re-enacted Pickett's famed charge. Southerners shook their heads. The Baltimore Sun mourned: Why could the monument not have been put up at Manassas, or Antietam, or the Wilderness, scenes of Longstreet's undoubted generalship...
...pasturage threatened a shortage of dairy products. Farmers from Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia met in Richmond, sent Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard a plea for "immediate help." In the Ashland, Va. Herald-Progress Publisher Paul Watkins advertised: "WANTED: One good rain for immediate delivery. . . . No thunder showers, ten-minute gully-washers, easy sprinklers or dust-layers need apply...