Word: thunderously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down to Derby breakfast with day broad at the windows; many a pretty gentleman cut cards and drank his glass who might not have a penny by sunset. It dawned cloudily; the morning was bright and dour in fits, with little spurts of rain and a rattle of distant thunder like uneasy hoofs. On the sidings of the railroad waited eight and a half miles of Pullman cars. Airplanes were neatly parked near the grandstand. Innumerable financiers, editors, sportsmen, presidential candidates and sharkies, who knew a horse when they saw one, tried to see one, elbowing one another...
...week for life or until remarriage; eldest child 5 s. per week until 14 years of age; all other children 3 s. per week until 14 years of age. This proposal, warmly welcomed by the Laborites, was held to be grand larceny of the Labor Party's thunder...
Every schoolboy knows that the state of West Virginia was born in the early thunder of the Civil War. Its people, refusing to follow Lee into the camp of Jefferson Davis, seceded from Virginia when Virginia seceded from the Union...
...their months and roar with that lusty volume developed on the gridiron, where the embattled players stood. Their bellows will be a shout heard round the world, and all the baseball umpires, hash slingers, train announcers, and senators will muffle their cars in terrified haste. The yell king's thunder is their doom, for only the fittest can survive. He who yells loudest yells best and becomes a superman...
Subscriber Schaye appears to be in all respects correct. The lines TIME quoted, Darius the Mede was a king and a wonder, His eye was proud and his voice was thunder...