Word: thunderstorms
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...news that three Italian army columns had crossed Ethiopia's far northern border reached Addis Ababa last week in a crashing thunderstorm. That night little Emperor Haile Selassie talked long with his white advisers, prayed longer to his dusky Coptic God. At dawn the lean Semitic Negroes began moving down out of the eucalyptus forests toward the palace. The guards let 5,000 into the palace grounds. While the Emperor watched the mob from a window, his Chancellor Haile Wolde-Roufe read out in the Amharic tongue Ethiopia's first effort at a modern mobilization order...
...copied from one Astaire did in Smiles in 1930; a pretentious "Piccolino," which may or may not turn out to be the "Continental" of 1935-36. Possibly more ingratiating than any of these is an informal scene reminiscent of their best, in Roberta, showing Rogers & Astaire caught in a thunderstorm, arguing with each other by dancing...
...Joseph Boggs Beale hoped one day to see published. Some weeks Artist Beale, in humorous vein, would confect such a series as The First Auto (see cut), in which a swank couple in duster and goggles buy a two-cylinder Pope-Hartford, take to the open road, encounter a thunderstorm, suffer a breakdown (which they attempt to mend with a gimlet and a hatchet), and finally drive on into a sentimental rainbow. More rough & tumble were Beale's ideas of Mrs. Casey's goat which butted a respectable Philadelphian into a watering trough or Uncle Rastus...
...June 28 the brothers got caught in a thunderstorm, fought it out for two hours, broke a stabilizer brace wire. Ole Miss droned on. Next day Ole Miss got into a serious jam when a radio short circuit set the instrument board afire. Al shut off the motor, put out the fire in three minutes with a hand extinguisher. Red-eyed and unshaven, aching all over, the brothers were stained with grease and carbon. Al, 28, had lost 20 Ib. Fred, 25, had gained ten. By this time all Mississippi was basking in their achievement, and Governor Conner made them...
...young man. "I knew this person's father well," certified General Li. "This person, when a child, was undoubtedly a girl. I am positive of that. Little by little the change took place, until the last stage which was most sudden and occurred during a thunderstorm. After the convulsion of a great clap of thunder, this person appeared to have become a manly youth. Superstitious people think there has been, an act of the Gods. I say it is for Science to decide...