Word: thunderers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kilbourne. The latter, a 26-year-old graduate West Pointer on leave from the Army, spells his name Johnston. His father dropped the "t" years ago. As an investigator in NRA's legal department Son Kilbourne dashes around with his father's zip but not his thunder...
...blinding darkness all around. Rain washed the wide expanse of windows intermittently and the wind in the chimneys moaned and shrilled like some dying titan. It was a fit night for ghoulish purposes, unthinkable horrors that drive the possessor slowly mad. In the cavernous vault the noise of thunder rolled and broke with the insistence of throbbing tom-toms. Somewhere out over the plain of roofs gleaming with water and the trees that tossed their branches in a spasm of agony as if to relieve some obsessing pain, a bell tolled the hour like a bad omen...
...complaints that such reductions will work a real hardship upon men with battle injuries. Case after case has been cited of veterans who lost an arm, a leg or an eye and who now must take a 50% cut in their compensation. Last week President Roosevelt stole more critical thunder from the bonuseers by announcing...
...Wasp-powered Bellanca, and extraordinary plans. Single-handed he would fly from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. to "some point in Asia," breaking by 1,000 mi. the 5,126 mi. non-stop distance record held by Great Britain. Shrewdly, he timed his flight to steal some of the thunder of Italo Balbo's squadron flight to the U. S. next month. He got big headlines by describing his unusual preparations for the ordeal of flying solo two days and a half...
...Arthur Barton; Theron Bamberger, pro- ducer) is an inferior newspaper play in which the editor of The Daily Tab, disappointed when a woman bungles the job of shooting her racketeering husband in his city room, is pleased when her second attempt is successful. There is very little of the thunder of the Hoe press, even a theatrical Hoe press, about Man Bites Dog. Able Leo Donnelly, as the managing editor, finds himself in bad dramatic company...