Word: thrilled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wisconsin He Would Thrill Sirs...
...only I had skill, sir Just to draw as you can write, Wisconsin I would thrill, sir, With a sketch in black and white...
...whimsically to a course of instruction through which radio experts and monsignori of his household skilled in diction are putting him. . . . Although the Pontiff will speak in Latin [over the radio Feb. 12] his advisers want his voice to carry over the air in such a manner as to thrill even the listeners who do not understand the words. The Pope has a clear, cultivated voice of rich timbre, but of moderate strength...
...Niagara Falls. The new notch in the falls' brink is about 150 ft. wide, 250 ft. deep. Geologists say that the 40,000-year-old falls will eventually be slanted back into a long series of rapids beginning near Tonawanda. N. Y. But New York's greatest thrill for honeymooners is safe for centuries to come. On the U. S. side the erosion process averages only one inch per annum...
...finest there is; he wrote a standard volume on the subject (The United States Pattern- Trial and Experimental Features). He has a rare collection of rare books. A thing little known about William Hartman Woodin until last week: He writes music. He has "never known such a thrill" as when his father gave him, a shop hand at the family foundry, $500 and his fellow workers congratulated him, for molding and annealing singlehanded a perfect car wheel. But in later life he has obtained minor thrills composing songs. Last year the name "Will Woodin" was given as the composer...