Word: thrilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brought back a bit of romantic spice and flavor in a recital of the most thrilling experiences of his life in this week's "Collier". There is a story of a balky uncle with a load of dynamite on his back and explosive bullets zipping all around; another of a colony of lepers threatening to break past his guard and infect a whole city with their dread disease. Amazing recitations they are, truly, but the French peasant ploughing up an unexploded shell probably gets the same thrill in his own back yard...
...news that at least two members of the Anti-Compulsory Vaccination Society are about to submit voluntarily to small pox infection arouses no thrill of admiration in most readers of the daily prints. It is hard to see just who will profit by the experiment. If the doctors escape the disease after nine days confinement in a penthouse, it will prove that some persons are less susceptible to contagion than others. If they die of the plague, as seems quite likely, it will prove nothing. In neither case, will there be any great advancement of medical science. The contemplated experiment...
...these vantage points, but may also make the older Yard dormitories appear less desirable. The supercomforts of the Freshman halls, added to the freedom of living for two years where one pleased, may have produced fastidious tastes. The gradual approach to senior's state may have worn away the thrill which, three years earlier, greeted the thought of issuing in cap and gown from tradition-riddled Hollis or Holworthy...
...command of both ships has been demonstrated again and again, there is revived talk of the expedition. General Mason M. Patrick in fact wants the ZR3 transferred to the Army, and a race between ZR3 and Shenandoah "to either the North or the South Pole." There would be sufficient thrill to a polar flight even without the element of a race. If a mooring mast and hangars were erected at Nome, Alaska, the actual distance to the North Pole would be comparatively small and either vessel could fly there and back in 72 hours. But terrible dangers would be involved...
...actors do practically as well as the original company in this most satisfactory thrill producer. Mr. Hall carries off principal honors as Montgomery Stockbridge, alive or dead. Houston Richards as the careless trouble-man gives the audience a few much needed laughs. Even Herbert Hayes seemed repressed and much subdued. We can't quite forgive Harvey Hays, as Drew, the detective, for finding the dying Stockbridge and shrieking the latter's name as if we all didn't know who he was. John Collier '24 was no ordinary butler