Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Repercussions of the Russo-Chinese crisis were felt even at Sam W. Gumpertz's Chinese Chamber of Horrors ("Eden Musée") on Coney Island. In gruesome attitudes of opium smoking, flagellation and beheading, Mr. Gumpertz's waxworks Chinamen thrill goggle-eyed gumchewers. Last week Chinese Consul-General Samuel Sung Young, fearing that such exhibits might prejudice China's case in the U. S., appealed against Mr. Gumpertz to Manhattan's Mayor Walker who promised to investigate. Mr. Gumpertz said the most he would do would be to hang up NOW ABOLISHED signs...
...Krafft-Ebbing fell into my hands and when, shortly afterward I found that two months before I was born my mother had been accidentally shorn of all her hair by a stupid maid. I cannot remember a time when the cutting of girls' hair did not excite and thrill me. At the San Francisco Exposition in 1915 I joined in the crowds with a safety-razor-blade and destroyed at least two dozen heads of hair, fortunately avoiding arrest although I was almost caught once. Several years later I was an entire Jack-the-Snipper epidemic in Dallas...
Grover C. (amphibians) Loening, first man to get a degree for aeronautical research (M. A., Columbia), wished a thrill last week, strapped a parachute to his back, went up in a Stearman over Roosevelt Field, L. I., at 2,000 feet jumped, and landed grinning...
...usual equilibrist act as the bill's opener is excellent, the "death-defying, daredevil climax" really giving us a thrill. Haye and Sayre, the two man dance team are very good as long as they are dancing, but unfortunately they attempt to sing too often...
...Hello Sucker! Pin back your ears and get a load of the next week's news: Sex, murder, sin, off and on will make you grab those straps on the 8:20 subway tighter and tighter. We aim to thrill, flatter, and admire, so cluster around with the money wide, high, and handsome...