Word: thunderously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once the game begins, the noise really starts. The head cheer leader has a P.A. system to give instructions to the rooters. Every time the team comes out of the huddle, the rooting section omits a mighty rear. On a close play, everyone stamps his feet, creating thunder before the rear. Cheers are frequent, and one tradition soaked cheer, the venerable "Axe Yell," is reserved all year long for a crucial point in the Big Game. When it finally comes, the whole stands fall into a hush as 7000 rooters boom out the tones of this famous chant. The inspired...
...19th Century's most earnest painters. In an exhibition of Delacroix and his contemporaries at the master's old Paris studio last week, students were searching for the thoughts in some of his best works. On the surface, many of the paintings looked like mere blood & thunder illustration. Delacroix had applied his fierce imagination and brilliant, Rubensesque draftsmanship to an endless series of somber myths, tiger hunts and desert duels. His chief thought seemed to be: "It's a cruel world, and one in which men play a bravely ineffectual role...
...welfare state was not softening Britain's youth. Ossett (pop. 15,000), Philip's home town in Yorkshire, prepared a big celebration. But his schoolmaster predicted that fame would not go to Philip's head: "He's a sound lad." Although Philip had stolen her thunder, Shirley May prettily congratulated...
Gradually the assembly hopes to thin out some of the blood and muffle the thunder of the average comic rip-roarer. Most conspicuous sample of their influence to date: "Brooklyn," a raggle-taggle Boy Commandos' character with bad grammar and warped diction has been transformed into a junior Brooks Brothers type who speaks impeccable English...
...Presidential Candidate Wintergreen had once discovered, Love was sweeping the country. On newsstands all over the U.S. last week, new-style comic books with such come-on titles as Sweethearts, Romantic Secrets, Teen-Age Romances and Young Love were outselling all others, even the blood & thunder variety. The sexy, slick-covered romance-mongers -souped-up soap operas in new wrappers-were rolling off the presses as fast as publishers could think up new names...