Word: thrilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sentiment has played a larger part in the affairs of the American merchant marine than in any other issue of national importance. In the last decades Americans have become great travellers, and the thrill of seeing the American flag in a foreign port has become the experience of many millions. A desire to see American ships in every port has been added to the old romantic notion of reviving the glories of the clipper ship...
Lovin' mem'ries fill me, thrill...
Last night's score was, of course, a tremendous disappointment to Harvard men. They had the satisfaction, however, of witnessing a splendid contest. So speedy, furious--and even--was the game that each gripping moment promised to bring the thrill of victory, and yet each gave way to another quite as stirring. To the wearers of the Crimson go the honorable laurels of a brave defeat; to the warriors in Blue the sincere congratulations which any true sportsman must extend to the victors of a hard-fought fray. Marking as it did Yale's tenth consecutive major sport victory over...
...Angled twigs, skeletons of the summer, the gust surges through the trees in floods, the smother grief, and smother hope lest disappointment grieve, the range of hissing sea foam as its creamy lines slide down the sand"--almost every phrase is in itself alive with a sort of electric thrill. "Sharon" by Stuart Ayers is pleasantly young, pretty, musical in the ear that listens to "something singing over the hill". The pastoral images are there again and the wistful feeling that escapes "over the hill". Content with these elements of poetry, Mr. Ayers depends on simplicity of statement...
When it comes to the greatest thrill of his life this long Texan adventurer turns to a Columbia class rush in which his son was taking part! After this one is not surprised when he concludes by saying that if his boy became an "aimless wanderer over and under the world" he would "nail his shoes to the floor". Like others who have sailed toward the horizon for romance and adventure he has ended by finding them in his own land, and even worse--in New York...