Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...these amazing days, when we no longer respond to the sight of a friend's name on a theatre program with that emotional thrill compounded of surprise and righteous satisfaction at successful prophecy,--so commonplace a thing it now is to behold some vanished Tom, Dick or Harry's fame glowing above the play-house door,--it may be pertinent to ask, where are the Harvard Poets? In the past we sought them in the pleasant pages of the Monthly, and found them there, Moody, Mackaye, Carpenter, and Hunt; today they are gone, and the bubbling Castalian spring of college...