Word: thunderings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defied the heavens. There was, they had decided, no God. They were atheists. And it was important that the world know this. They publicly proclaimed themselves "damned souls," and waited for the heavens to fall. But the heavens fell not. Nor did the waters rise and the thunder rumble and the lightning strike them in their tracks. Not so much as a slip of paper from the dean's office fluttered down upon them. Though they proclaimed that the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, Inc. (Freeman Hapgood, general secretary), had welcomed them to membership, Dean Charles Hoeing...
...studios loosed their thunder. Meetings were planned, resolutions framed. August Lukeman, sculptor of the Stone Mountain Memorial to the Confederacy, was first to be heard...
Momentarily during this siesta the guarded grottos tremble with low thunder, and dying tones strike, now and then, out into the halls, like firecrackers on the morning of the Fourth. as the first mystic departs. It is a votive offering to the God of Chance, done with an artful restraint. In it there is not the exuberance of Bacchic indulgence, nor the incessant drumming and tapping of a dance. There is one vigorous thunder-clap, worked by unseen soles upon the floor; and that is all. It ascends to the ceiling; worn faces twist half-concernedly about; the sacred door...
...apologize, sir?" boomed Mr. Parris in a voice of thunder. " Apologize, do you?" he shouted, speaking as if for George Washington himself against all the derisive lexicographers of eternity. " Then let me tell you, sir, that I refuse to accept your apology...
...showered with glory . . . the credit for four-fifths of which, at least, belonged to Ludendorff. . . . In every heart, on every tongue, there was but one name, Hindenburg. . . . Every maid in the most distant forester's lodge knew that head, which the people call 'a majestic brow of thunder,' and the Kaiser, in his jealous rage, termed 'a sergeant...