Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frivolous Londoners, Marko seems just another glamorous eccentric, sent to amuse and thrill them with his daring antics. When, one evening, Marko appears at a reception and a rough voice bellows from the audience, "What about Varga, Lener, Goldfink?", everyone rocks with laughter at what seems an inexplicable joke. But as the months pass and the unreal festival approaches, the names of the mysterious trio keep echoing through London. Finally, a bomb of accusation bursts, in the form of the question: Did Marko make his first millions by selling his three compatriots to the Gestapo...
...cools on her tableau of a purple-scarf murder before the clues do, and the strangler begins stalking her, poor Essie hides out as a showgirl with a neighboring theatrical troupe. For Essie, a spinster of 29, whose lips have never touched liquor, cigarettes or men, the greatest thrill is to be close to the show's American strong man (Richard Kiley). The problem: who will get whose man first-Scotland Yard or Essie Whimple? In a Keystone chase finale, Essie gets both...
Without any doubt the starts of the meet were Ron Delany of Ireland and John Thomas of B.U. Delany, wearing the green of his home country, gave the enthusiastic crowd a thrill with one of his patented come-from-behind triumphs in the K. of C. Mile. He moved into the lead with two laps to go, after trailing the field most of the way, and romped home in the good indoor time...
Finally, it cannot be too much emphasized that the great majority of those who work in Harvard theater do not intend to become professionals. They like local drama for its camaraderie, its opportunities for self-expression in many ways, its abundance of different ideas, and the thrill of producing near-professional results with non-professional material. They fear that a situation in which doctrine was expounded in the classroom and enacted in the new theater would leave no room for them and their successors. John Washburn...
...Willie Hartack, three-time (1955-56-57) national jockey champion, made his debut as a jumping rider at New Jersey's Monmouth Park, gave Mielaison a near-perfect ride over the ten-jump, 1¾-mile course, won by 4½ lengths, announced: "It was a greater thrill than winning the Kentucky Derby...