Word: thunderously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the opening line, "You will kill your father and marry your mother" which was spoken in dull, hollow tones by Richard C. Sullivan '35, from behind the hideous mask of the Narrator, to the final peal of thunder, supplied by the machinations of Whitney Cook, Jr. '36, the Dramatic Club's rendering of Jean Cocteau's "La Machine Infernale" (in translation) at the Repertory Theatre is a fine bit of technique and dramatization...
...publishing business brings him in more than the $10,000 salary of California's Governor. In the next he swears he has less than $150 in the bank. Fact is, the Sinclairs are still floundering in insolvency as a result of financing Director Sergei Eisenstein's Thunder Over Mexico, Upton's last interest before founding EPIC...
...point, however, the industry was in perfect accord last week: Federal regulation was a colossal fizzle. The overwhelming majority of the industry was ready to cooperate with Administrator Ickes in the suppressing of the festering hot oil racket. Yet after a year under the code and despite constant thunder from the Department of the Interior, the Department of Justice and the Treasury, hot oil flowed freer than ever. The sole landmark in the oil badlands was the fact that the price of crude was still $1 per bbl. And by last week it was no longer a question of whether...
...Department of Justice thought it was on the trail of a prime clue when it found that Hauptmann's footprints corresponded with footprints left in the mud beside the Lindbergh home the night of the abduction. John Edgar Hoover, chief of the Division of Investigation, continued to steal thunder from his brother. Steamboat Inspector Dickerson Naylor Hoover, whose Mono Castle investigation was shoved off front pages by the Lindbergh case. Investigator Hoover declared he was looking for a woman and a "stoop-shouldered man" who might have been accomplices...
...claim put forth by administration supporters that the opposition party has nothing to offer place of the New Deal policies is admittedly true. To go further left is hardly possible, the stolid attitude of the twenties is thoroughly discredited, and the present administration has stolen most of the thunder of the reform and regulation advocates. Administration extravagance, despite the clamor raised about it, is a poor basis for a platform under present conditions...