Word: thunderously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside the U. S. the Depression has played hob with politics. In Britain a Coalition Government has been plodding along through crises of which last week's was one of the gravest, with great riots in London. France has swung from Right to Left while Germany amid civil blood & thunder was swinging in the other direction. A revolution turned Spain from a monarchy into a republic. China has gone from chaos to chaos. As an antidote for hard times Japan has taken a fling at militarism. South America has spawned too many revolutions to count. The King of Siam...
...Thunder clouds rolling down the valley of the Loire last week made excited Frenchmen hurry to launch from the river's mouth at St. Nazaire the largest ship in the world...
Dignified President Lebrun had key-noted at a luncheon preceding the thunder clouds: "Our merchant marine is regaining its full strength. A big commercial fleet is necessary in such a colonial empire as ours-scattered over the four corners of the earth...
...vehicle for Tallulah Bankhead, whose eyelids have been compared to the fat stomachs of sunburned babies,* Paramount decided to lend her to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and see what happened. Faithless will probably leave Miss Bankhead about where she was before. She has a more full-bodied role than in Thunder Below, Tarnished Lady, My Sin and The Devil and The Deep, and a better leading man (Robert Montgomery). Otherwise, the picture is in the Bankhead tradition, a solemn sexual mumbo-mumbo of wealth impoverished and beauty in distress...
...dedicated this week, is easily the most attractive and practical building of its kind in the U. S. The stage has every convenience- an elaborate arrangement of bridges and traps permitting any part of the floor to be lowered or raised, an imported electrical cloud machine, a thunder machine, a wind machine. The seating arrangement will please boxholders far better than that which Samuel Insull devised for Chicago...