Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...medley of deliriously discordant, rarely harmonious, characters-famous Artist Bidlake whose voluptuous youth has reluctantly passed into caustic Rabelaisian senility; his writer-son who flings aside a reproachful mistress for the wanton daughter of a musty scientist; a suave sadist who bullies, tortures, kills, for the sheer thrill of it; an editor-publisher, bitterly caricatured, who fleeces his authors, but shows his mistress an almost inhuman tenderness; a conversational philosopher who is said to be the author's particular mouthpiece. As such, he is a brilliantly garrulous person, for Huxley fairly seethes with things to be said about...
...BOOK OF WORDS-Rudyard Kipling-Doubleday, Doran ($3.00). A collection of speeches-1906 to 1927. Untouched by new-fangled ions and isms, the old-time Kipling remembers the lure of the Orient, the challenge of drums, the thrill of courage, the virtue in authority...
...Significance. Chicago's bootleg feuds, machine gun riots, gang run politics, are matter of course; but the inside story is still matter of conjecture. Author Kantor provides likely data for the conjecture, but his inside story is of an innocent accomplice who obeys with a thrill, and wonders what it is all about...
...Received their chief vicarious thrill of the week when David Lloyd George delivered before the Welsh Church Union in London a fiery and thoroughgoing reprimand to Christians...
Incidentally but most importantly the thrill finders are also absorbing an unshakable conviction that the Capitalist Powers have launched a vast conspiracy to wreck the vital industries of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...