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Word: thrilled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thunder that darkly strode from the organ pipes . ..." Ah! that I might have been there to see! Weird, mystic shapes, tremulous, vibrant, sonorous, which "strode" with intangible form down the dim cathedral aisles. Why, friends, I am 77 years old and I haven't had such a thrill (literary thrill) since, at the age of ten, I read about "an arm clothed in samite?mystic, wonderful!" Joking aside, please do not let carping critics persuade you to change or abandon your charming diction. Why not clothe commonplace details with beautiful language? Keep up the good work, and if there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 11, 1926 | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

...opportunity to capitalize long power and collegiate" appearance will be of fered to 150 students in the University and neighboring colleges, when "The Poor Nut" opens at the Hollis Street Theatre on January 11. The play, which is advertised as "of the College" contains as its chief thrill, & track meet, during which a throng of undergraduates cheer the hero on to greater efforts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Poor Nut" Wants Actors | 1/6/1926 | See Source »

...charm of Chekhov's cherry orchard. Now at last we have a whack at a play by the most active leader in the revolt against all this realism, by that dare-devil of the Russian drama Nicolai Nicolaevich Evreinov--or Yevreynoff, if that spelling gives you more of the thrill of the exotic and esoteric...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB ONCE MORE IS SUCCESSFUL | 12/1/1925 | See Source »

...Tutankhamen has within the week eclipsed contemporary suns with the shadow of his majesty. For labor leaders, finance ministers, and even divorcees are never buried in coffins of gold in an eternal setting of jewels. A people hungry for the glints of splendor find much to amuse and thrill their welcoming hearts in the mental contemplation of such granduer. The sentiment of the world Howard Carter holds in his right hand while he removes aged vestments from the mummy form of this early king with a gesture of his left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CELESTIAL MUMMY | 11/17/1925 | See Source »

When that aged Pittsburgh viveur, Harry K. Thaw, feeling in his veins the thrill of a new spring, went to Manhattan and began to conduct himself in a manner that ill benefitted his grey hairs (TIME, Sept. 28), the New York Daily Mirror "crusaded" against him, asking, "Why is a rich lunatic a free lunatic?" Some of the Mirror's chicle-masticating readers may have thought it a breach of taste, a blatancy, to make so much of the fact that an old rake wanted to chuck a dancing girl under the chin. Little did these readers know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Back to Back | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

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