Word: thunderously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...music like beer carelessly dumped into a mug too small for it so that a turbulent foam froths over. And yet, by some strange madness in his playing he gave his technical vagaries the air of having been written for him by Wagner; he tumbled a sunset thunder-mountain into the fustian stalls of Carnegie Hall; he rocked the hearts of shriveled critics so that they swore no one who ever lived had an equal magic in his finger tips. He was Ignace Jan Paderewski...
...Norse God of Thunder, who downed every potion offered him at a gulp, until presented with a drinking horn connected magically with the ocean. Then he caused fluctuations in the tides...
...back over the moving column of priests, over the officers of the council, over the richly vested phalanx of Bishops who brought up the rear. The thurifers entered the Church. There was a rustle as the multitude stood up. Then candles were lit, hymn books opened, and to the thunder that darkly strode from the organ pipes, the chanting voices of a choir of monks and the solemn soundless rhythm of the censers swinging on their chains from the wrists of the thurifers, the procession moved up the aisle. First went the priests, severe in white surplices, black cassocks...
Keith-Albee -- "Thunder Mountain", continuous...
Bright young men in middle western high schools hear from afar the dismal thunder of defeat and elect to go elsewhere...