Word: thunderers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comes the sad part of the tale. The accidental upsetting of a goblet, and the consequent tinkling of broken glass precipitated violent action. In a black thunder-cloud of wrath descended His Majesty harsh words rasped as lightning flared forth; and the much-taken-aback Commander of the Carrot, feeling on a par with the meanest of his spud-skinning scullions slunk with his companion out of the abode of the Mighty with his tall between his legs. That is why Waistootts and He-Men have not recently been found in especial Presidential favor...
...announcement from Washington last week that $12,000,000 of Federal Emergency Relief Administration funds had been set aside to keep rural schools open took some of the wind from the conference's sails but none of the thunder from speakers' voices. Sounded were the same protests against school economies, the same warnings of national disaster which have been heard at every educators' conference for the past three years. "It is quite as important to balance the nation's life as to balance the nation's budget," cried University of Wisconsin's President Glenn...
...deserted their desks, streaked through the hallways, tried to elbow their way inside. Lights glared while newsreel cameras waited. Senators basked in more publicity than they had had in months. Promptly at 10:30, bareheaded and wearing a grey suit without a vest, Col. Lindbergh strode in amid a thunder of applause. He shook hands with Chairman McKellar, sat down stiffly in a red leather chair, flipped through a copy of the bill, drummed his fingers on the table, smiled. Brisk and businesslike, the flyer identified himself as technical adviser to Transcontinental & Western Air and Pan American Airways, said...
...story begins with Chief "Thunder Horse, who left his native haunts at an early age to attend Haskell Institute and never returned, in a wild west show at the Chicago World's Fair, lionized by the young society matrons, and swilling down cocktails with the best of them. Hearing that his father is hill, and being temporarily fed up with his play boy existence, he jumps into his special custom model roadster, and sets out for the reservation. When he arrives there finding his father dying, unattended by the government doctor, and discovering the graft-ridden administration makes him burn...
Down in flames amid a thunder of exploding bullets came Springfield, Ill.'s huge, old National Guard Armory last month. Only clue to the $750,000 fire's origin was a small boy in leather jacket and tweed cap who that morning had reported to the custodian a small blaze in the armory's washroom...