Word: thunderstorms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death of Brahms, witnessed only by his housekeeper, has never before been described. Wagner was working at his desk when his death stroke came. Beethoven died in a thunderstorm shaking his great fist at the elements. Brahms's housekeeper, feeling that a man's death should be in keeping with his accomplishments, never spoke of the passing of Brahms until rangy, likeable Author Schauffler came along. For him she described the dying Brahms whose last words-"Ja, das ist schön"-concerned some wine that a friend had sent in. At the end. she said. Brahms could...
...Porter is believed to have drowned on Saturday, July 8, during a severe thunderstorm which overtook the small sailing craft in which he was cruising off the Irish coast. Several years ago, Dr. Porter bought an estate, Glenveagh Castle, at Gartan, County Donegal. He was sailing to the castle from a small summer bungalow on Inishboflin Island when the storm arose...
More than a week passed before a lineman discovered the last missing team between Sudbury and Abitibi Canyon in Northern Ontario. Grounded in a thunderstorm about 550 mi. from the start, Balloonists Trotter & Van Orman had plunged through the bush until they stumbled on power lines of Ontario Hydro-Electric Co. Shrewdly they had chopped down a pole, knowing that soon a lineman would be sent to repair the break. On the stump they left a note saying that they were following the line south. Finding the note the lineman hurried after, found them huddled in a shanty, their clothes...
...Gothic house was one of the town's sights; Big Mary, an amiable, immensely efficient Negro cook, who refused to exchange her status of "accommodator" for steady employment; Johnny's Uncle Robert, a champion bicycle racer who was killed in a railroad accident when, during a wild thunderstorm, his train plunged into a ravine. Sharpest of all is the picture of Johnny's Grandfather Willingdon who came home to Johnny's house when he was an old man. He lived, embittered, eccentric and alone, in a room above the kitchen that was pervaded by the aroma...
...hotel from basement to roof, blew out the front of four stories sent 180-ft. streamers of flame into the air, injured 80 and gave Knop, mistress & child the company of four strangers in Death. That same night in Zubrohlava peasants were about to leave church when a thunderstorm came up, herded them back inside. Lightning struck the church steeple three times. The men stampeded over the women & children going two ways: 1) out, 2) toward the altar rail for God's protection. Twenty-one women and children were trampled to death. Four men who had fought their...