Word: thrilled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much of a unit to be able to attribute its success to any individual members of the cast. Of Course, there could never be anyone but Helen Morgan to take the part of Julie. No one from the vantage point of a piano top could carry the magnetic thrill of her personality to every member of the audience, as she sings that oddly sentimental song, "Bill," for which incidentally, P. G. Wodehouse, wrote the lyric...
...John Brown's Body' [by Stephen Vincent Benét] was a step in the right direction. I've read it once and I'm reading it again. But it's too long to do what I mean. You can't thrill people in 300 pages. Three hundred lines is about the limit. Kipling's 'Recessional' really did something to England when it was published. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around...
Sirs: We were in that front-row seat when the curtain rose on "The March of Time" this p.m. We got a wonderful thrill out of your vivid portrayals. Welcome back on the air! MRS. MARY DICKINS...
...view of all the facts available at this time, I believe my brother's death was murder." A New York Sun newsman asked heavy-jowled Col. Jacob Ruppert, brewer and owner of the New York Yankees (see p. 20), if winning baseball championships had given him his biggest thrills in life. Replied the Colonel: "Yes and no. . . . Looking back now I doubt if I ever felt more elated than when I was a youngster and on occasions would go galloping out driving the ambulance to bring in one of our ailing brewery wagon horses. And what a thrill...
...light, bald, spry gentleman of 56, Will Caton got down from his sulky and said he had just had ''the biggest thrill of a lifetime." Most of the record crowd of 25,000 knew enough about Will Caton's history to doubt him. Last week's was the first Hambletonian he had ever won but he had won every other important trotting race in the world, most of them several times. He was born near Cleveland, where his father owned part of the Forest City Stock Farm. Three races he won at the Chicago World...