Word: thunderers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facts." As for Governor Roosevelt, most spectators had only praise for the direct and fearless way he had handled the Walker examination. He behaved as if he had no thought of its political consequences. He had damned the Mayor out of his own mouth. A Walker removal now would thunder across the land until election day as proof positive that Governor Roosevelt is no "Tammany...
...Profit During the afternoon Nominee Thomas climbed up on a platform. He spoke easily, rapidly, with few gestures and no political blood & thunder. His speech not only inaugurated his campaign but gave his party its 1932 slogan: ''Repeal Unemployment." Avoiding abstract theory he hammered home the necessity for relief, not as the two old parties proposed but by means of the Socialist formula of "production for public use rather than for private profit. " Excerpts...
...summer is a suitable time for blood & thunder. Detective stories, which normally sell better than any other form of fiction, reach their sales peak in August. Less extraordinary than The Conjure-Man Dies but still appealing, appalling is Dead Hands Reaching in which Dallas Gantry returns to her small-town home of Willow Valley and finds it seething with murder. Her husband, Jurden Keye, is the meanest man in town. He gets the knife before anyone else in town but he is dead by that time anyway. A bullet killed him. A strumpet who thinks Dallas did it is murdered...
Scientists do not understand thunder and they still argue about lightning. George Clarke Simpson's "breaking drop" theory has been most widely accepted. Experiments have shown that when falling water drops are made to break on a rising column of air, the drops take on a positive charge of electricity, the air and lighter spray a negative charge. Drops large enough to fall against a rising air current are likely to break up and take a positive charge. Reduced in size they are blown upward again, rising less rapidly than the negative air and spray. Their charge makes them coalesce...
Miss Ishbel MacDonald took her father for long, slow motor drives through the beauteous Swiss countryside. In London it was a matter of common remark that President Hoover had stolen the Prime Minister's thunder (see col. 3). It was even said that unless Scot MacDonald achieves a spectacular success of some sort in Switzerland his loss of prestige will make it impossible for him to continue as the head of Great Britain's National Government...