Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same thing as when one has been through some frightful anxious adventure, like a shipwreck at sea, or a lucky escape from the charge of a lion while game hunting; the original experience was far from enjoyable, but when looking back in retrospect one enjoys, has even a thrill, in recalling the adventure, although at the time one may have been almost frantic with anxiety or fear. We are in love with our memories though the original experiences were far from lovable. The same principle applies to pleasurable football memories...
...controls his excitable peninsula; and its failure to obtain its objectives may be accounted for by the inability of Americans to do things as dramatically as Italians. The ground was prepared well. Many Americans are convinced that our national institutions are gravely threatened, and many more feel the childish thrill of joining with an organization dealing in large popular movements. The American public is as susceptible as any other to political charlatanism. The Klan uniform is much more sanitary and fully as picturesque as a black shirt Yet--all of the invisible Empire's stage effects have fallen through, because...
...feet. Again, in a lyric moment, his face shines with the ardor of a lover, and when he slips off his shaggy sweater his beholders see a long cloak slip from the shoulders of one who stands under a balcony in Verona. Best of all he loves the thrill of impending defeat, when the pitying crowd can read in his visage the despair of one who has striven and failed, and perceive by his labored breathing and frequent potations of ice-water that the end is not far off. Then it is that he truly comes into...
...first day of the famed Cowes Week, and the King's cutter with Prince Henry and the Duke of Connaught aboard was racing against Sir Thomas and the others. Doubtless in the gnarled heart of that connoisseur of defeats there pricked, for a moment, the thrill of the possibility of victory; his boat was first at the gun; the royal cutter slipped farther and farther behind. But, having learned to savor the futility of hope, doubtless he was not surprised when Lord Waring's White Heather slipped past his lee on the crest of a feathering wave...
...challenger, disdained to employ the artful dodges of science, but traded punches with the wild-eyed, bloody-mouthed, berserk Shea. Many who saw the little men belabor each other thought of another battle in which a champion who could box met a challenger who could hit, said: "The biggest thrill since Dempsey smacked Firpo...