Word: thunderously
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...superficially, and therefore at times offensively, gruesome. Just one moment like that in All Quiet on the Western Front, when the soldier whose leg has been amputated complains of a pain in his toe, would have justified much of inexperienced Director Edgar Selwyn's blood, sentimentality and synthetic thunder. Anita Page, Robert Montgomery, Robert Ames and June Walker are in it. Best shot: the officers' party. Silliest shot: the advent of Anita Page's baby...
Meanwhile the cabinet, just 24 hours before Conservative Baldwin was scheduled to do the same thing, suddenly came out with a scheme for "guaranteed food purchases from the Dominions through British quota boards." Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden was credited with thus smartly stealing the enemy's thunder. But nobody seemed to think that even "Phil" himself wholeheartedly approves of this merely expedient scheme...
...fighting speech" was to consolidate and fire with new loyalty the Centrist-Socialist parties group which he leads -notwithstanding that the speech contained a qualifying statement that Germany will advance toward her aims ''solely along the path of Peace." Momentarily Herr Bruning had stolen Fascist thunder. Masterfully he pressed his advantage, maneuvered for a quick vote of confidence on a motion to adjourn the Reichstag for six weeks. Such a move would have been madness earlier in the week. But today was today. By a vote of 323 to 236 the Reichstag rejected Communist and Fascist motions censuring...
...paradoxical but sound idea. Why not contribute to the "Brown Shirt" party fund? Then, in case fiery Herr Hitler should try another coup d'état (like that which he and General von Ludendorü failed to carry through in 1923) surely Jewish contributors would not find Fascist "thunder squads" crashing in their doors. Last week swaggering Hitlerites boasted scornfully of having been offered such "Jew-cash," would not admit to taking...
...curious combination of hard, soldierly, efficient* officer and humane, skeptical, almost pacifistic civilian. He believed in shooting sentries who fell asleep; ordered his men to fire many an extra round on Christmas Day, because he did "not believe in Christmas relaxation, in war"; used "atrocity" propaganda and blood-and-thunder speeches ad lib to increase his troops' morale. Yet he can take stock thus of the ultimate end of discipline, of all soldierly training: "The net result of the barren, glorious bloody battle of Thiepval is that over 700 men of the West Belfast battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles...