Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...millionaire fires a shot. That starts things going. The "mellow" drama gets a bit overripe and oozes "gooily" about the stage. The audience becomes pained when it ought to laugh, laughs when it ought to quake with fear. Needless to say the lovers are eventually left free to thrill one another with unrestricted mush without further discomfiting the audience...
...with the prospect of unsettled conditions in politics for the next four months, there is a tendency toward watchful waiting all along the line from producer to consumer. Wall Street, however, after several months of an uninteresting experience with meaninglessly see-sawing prices, is now getting the old-fashioned thrill that only a sudden decline in interest rates can give. Bonds and stocks with fixed or certain dividends are making "new highs" daily. Yet, on the basis that it takes something more than cheap money to produce rising markets and prosperity, investors are still gun-shy of industrial stocks...
...Just Published! "THE PRICE OF THINGS" by Elinor Glyn, author of "Three Weeks" Here is a novel that will open your eyes! Each succeeding chapter grows more daring. From the Magic Pen of Elinor Glyn flows a throbbing tale of audacious characters, startling incidents, sensational situations, daring scenes, thrill after thrill! So realistic is the charm, the fire, and the passion of this fiercely-sweet romance, that the hot breath of the hero seems to fan your face. Your blood races madly at the unconditional surrender of the delicious heroine. You kiss her madly and seem to draw her very...
...college students, in the Middle West, kidnaped young Robert Franks, according to their own confession, and murdered him in cold blood, entirely for the sake of a "thrill." The defense, according to newspaper dispatches, is rallying its forces around a new plea, "dementia jazz-mania," in order to free the confessed murderers...
Upon little courtesies such as this a better feeling of intercollegiate friendship and sympathy is bound to arise. Too often in the heart of competition between institutions the immediate result victory, is overemphasized. The bigger and finer things, such as better relations, a broader viewpoint and the thrill of the competition itself are some-times overlooked in the desire to win. Victory become so large the greater benefits hidden behind intercollegiate competition are lost from sight. It is unfortunate that the relation between these tangible and intangible ideals should sometimes become distorted but it is often the case and cannot...