Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week the U. S. Navy had news of the biggest and some of the smallest fighting boats in the world. Big and little, the boats were on paper, but they were near enough to water to catch the interest of admirals, dictators and all those, including Franklin Roosevelt, who thrill to anything that floats...
...will bring back with the crash of a six-shooter those days ten years ago when you slipped down to the neighborhood theatre with a quarter burning a hole in your pocket. This is the western of the 20's recreated faithfully, with all the old thrills and all the old cliches. It has the same story abut the indomitable sheriff who cleans up the toughest town in the West. It has the same bad man whose gang rules the town with a cruel hand of iron. There is the lovely orphan lass from the south ho has come...
This reviewer hopped a freight to New York for the opening, and was given the biggest thrill of his life by seeing Miss O'Connell make a tremendous hit with everybody. No one can be unaffected by the charm and beauty with which she sings. Add the fact that the lady is a genuinely good looking vocalist, and the sum equals another factor in Dorsey's rise...
Hollywood manner, they emerged with a "Declaration of Democratic Independence," phrased with care not to desecrate the original, in which they petitioned the President and Congress of the United States to break off all trade relations with Germany. Tops among 56 original Signers of this document were names to thrill millions of cinemagoers: Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Joan Bennett, Myrna Loy, etc., etc. In other cities, other groups of 56 signers are being formed. Less glamorous names represented New York, including Helen Keller, Carrie Chapman Catt, Mary E. Woolley. Excerpts from their Declaration of trade war, to which they propose...
...Fort Madison, Iowa, 23 members of the Iowa Legislature last week slept one night in cells of Iowa State Penitentiary, four of them in death row, for the "thrill...