Word: thunderers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mountaineers swarmed down with squirrel guns. State troopers brought machine guns. Townsmen arrived with rifles, pistols, shotguns. Searchlights on Orange County fire trucks flickered across the house's blank, ominous face. Soon, crouched behind trees, knolls and fences, a posse of some 300 men were sending a crackling thunder of gunfire rolling through the peaceful hills. Yet the beleaguered blacks inside the house held firm. One after another five policemen and a countryman went down with bullets in their flesh...
Friday Evening, May 22 Roxbry Latin School Night French Military MarchSaint-Saens *Academic Festival Overture Brahms *"Traumerel" Schumano Fantasia, "Samson and Dellish" Saint-Saens Ballet Suite Rameau-Motti *Valse Triste Sibellus *Bolero Ravel *Selection, "Roberts" Kern *"Emperor" Waltzes Strausa *"Thunder and Lightning," Polka Strauss...
...tricolor, forgetting the apparent anomoly of the white and the blue on the banner. It has long been merely a question of time before France would have to make up her mind. While the ball was being passed from Flandin to Laval to Sarraut with badly concealed clumsiness, thunder was coming from the left and fire from the right. In arriving at the crossroad, canny Frenchmen saw the issue as it really was and made a sharp left turn. If European history for the last few years can give any lessons, Gallic logic has scored a substantial victory...
Wild indeed ran Director Hoover's G-Men last week. As if timed to induce Congress to change its mind about next year's appropriation, the Bureau put on an intensive blood-&-thunder show which made blacker headlines than any similar period of activity since the big gangster hunt...
...insurrection fails because of the negroes' superstitions. Rain and lightning and thunder are responsible for the loss of many of Gabriel's followers, as well as (partly) for the defection of Ben. Against superstition and treachery even the gods contend in vain, and when Gabriel goes down in defeat he goes down with an undeniable grandeur which even Mr. Bontemps can impart to the reader...