Word: thriller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pianist. Sikorsky meanwhile attracted the attention of his fellow exile, Sergei Rachmaninoff, who helped raise $100.000 to start an aircraft factory. First U. S. built Sikorsky (S-29) carried two grand pianos from New York to Washington, flew half a million miles before being purposely crashed in a Hollywood thriller. More famed was S-35, which Sikorsky built in 1926 for Capt. Rene Fonck, French Ace of Aces, who planned a non-stop flight to Paris. Loaded with nearly 14,000 Ib. of gasoline, S-35 crashed on the takeoff, incinerated two mechanics. Newshawks saw Sikorsky weep...
...poetry are the two prevailing types of detectification: 1) the shooting-&-chasing kind, with more action than plot, the denouement hidden by red herrings; 2) the novel which attempts to convey an impression of real people, leisurely, intelligent, even sophisticated, with a minimum of shock and horror. The thriller market has lately declined with a consequent rise in general interest in the more subtle type of this brand of fiction...
AFTER WORLDS COLLIDE - Edwin Balmer & Philip Wylie- Stokes ($2). A thriller about life on a new planet; for those who are ashamed to be caught reading a detective story...
...VOYAGE-Heinrich Herm-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). A luxury liner strikes a floating derelict and the characters wilt like dress shirts. Good second-rate thriller made slightly indigestible by Teutonic philosophizing...
...flowing maple sap come to disturb the student at his desk, to stir him to forget book, to promulgate questionnaires if he is learned, to do other things if he is not, it is time for a movie like the Mystery of Mr. X. It combines the detective thriller which diverts the gray board scholar, with the bill-and-coo whimsy comedy so appropriate to our age, to this season. It is smoothly and skillfully done, at once grisly and delightful; if it leaves some questions unanswered, why ask questions...