Word: thunderously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rose Senator Johnson to thunder: "I scorn that proposition! ... I demand, sir ... the right to see those documents and to utilize them in debate. . . . Here is a Treaty perhaps not very greatly opposed on the floor of the Senate, but thank God, it is opposed by some men who believe it is inimical and are willing in the face of press bludgeoning and partisan lashing to stand here and make them fight...
Like distant thunder but with the beat of a tune. Gargantuan sounds pealed across the western suburbs of Berlin last week. Twenty-five miles away at Siemens-stadt technicians of the German Siemens & Halske electric trust were testing the world's loudest loudspeaker. Its powerful diaphragm can make as much music as a 2,000-piece symphony orchestra, as much noise as 500 lusty German kitchen wenches pounding with wooden spoons on tin dishpans...
Travelers returning from Italy last week told of a striking portent in connection with Signor Benito Mussolini's fiery speaking tour on which he thundered against the "enemies of Italy" (without mentioning them) at Leghorn, Florence, Milan (TIME, May 26, et seq.). Perhaps with intent to frighten would-be assassins, an astonishing poster was stuck up everywhere. It showed the face of Il Duce in thunder-black silhouette. Circling his face in lightning-like letters were these words: "GOD SENT US THIS MAN! WOE BETIDE HIM WHO HARMS...
Talk of this sort, heard along Broadway last week, was for the most part theatrical summer thunder-&-lightning...
...down on a bench and ostentatiously went to sleep. (Her husband, Sir Oswald, resigned from the Cabinet after quarrelling with Chancellor Snowden ? TIME, June 2.) As the bitter night wore on members of all parties sprawled and snored on their benches, awakened once by a sudden clap of thunder, roused occasionally by party whips to speak a needed word. The whips at last became so frantic as to stir up members slumbering in the lobbies by piping on police whistles...