Word: thunderously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winter months of both 1926 and 1927 than during the summers of the same years. With the recent decrease in spots on the sun, radio reception during the last two months of 1928 has shown considerable improvement. It may be mentioned that the high degree of static due to thunder storms in the summer months results in the fact that the average radio listener will decrease the sensitivity of his set in summer to lesson these disturbances with the necessary accompaniment of low audible intensity of distant stations. Hence the general impression of a low intensity accompanying warm weather...
...Nationalist President, Chiang Kaishek. Such a salute would have been fired long ago by a German war boat since Berlin is exceedingly friendly to Nanking, except for the fact that the disarmed German Republic has never had in Chinese waters a war boat potent enough to thunder a proper salute. A recent trifling difference between U. S. Minister to China John Van Antwerp MacMurray, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang resulted in cancellation of fully perfected plans that a U. S. war boat should fire the first "big gun" salute since the U. S. officially "recognized" the Nationalists months ago (TIME...
STRANGE INTERLUDE-Nine acts of intellectual thunder by Eugene O'Neill and a Theatre Guild cast (TIME...
...Squealer. Among the more spirited of Manhattan's antiquarians is Mark Linder; he wrote a play from which lamed Mae West evolved the picturesque excitement of Diamond Lil; now he has scratched up further blood and thunder about San Francisco's underworld, 22 years ago. It is a candid melodrama, of vice rampant and virtue triumphant; yet its most bitter climaxes are meant to be accepted and enjoyed in a somewhat mocking spirit. The audience will gloat, not shiver, when a character says: "I'll get you for this, Logan, if it takes me twenty years...
...years Mrs. Struthers Burt paid the grocer, sent the children to school, on the proceeds of blood-and-thunder bestsellers, while her more distinguished husband wrote literature. Recently his literature has begun to pay, and his wife has snatched the opportunity herself to indulge in a little literature. As such, Cock's Feather is carefully designed, well-written. Never attaining heights of imagination or depths of tragedy, it is the consistent story of remarkably convincing human characters...