Word: thrilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book with slovenly heaps of "scientific" jargon, consisting chiefly of proper names that Writer Snaith looked up in some book or read in the newspapers. One is repeatedly told that the badinage is entirely "point-device." Writer Snaith patches his wretched English with motley tatters of French. But the thrill's the thing; shut your eyes and you will surely get it. However splintery, the how drawn is one of the longest ever dragged from the woods...
Fortunes exchanged hands. One James Carew, shipping clerk of Liverpool, won the Calcutta Sweepstake,** amounting to $365,000. As he had sold two quarter shares in his ticket for about $25,000, his net gain was only about $207,000, but enough to provide James Carew with a thrill...
...college can remember the peculiar spinal thrill that can be inspired only by the sight of a smooth and powerful Harvard crew sweeping across the finish line at New London, a winner. For several years Harvard has not even expected...
...cars thunder past every minute or two, and conversation on Massachusetts Avenue is impossible due to their flat-wheeled discord. The chance of meeting a violent death from automobiles every time we go to class has become common-place, and only a falling blimp or an earthquake can now thrill us. If the purpose of life be considered as a preparation for the hereafter, we are rapidly acquiring the proper nonchalance toward the transition...
...most thrill mad auditor can hardly be dissatisfied with the amazing succession of mystery, murder, ghosts, darkness, weird noises off stage and weird doings on stage. The most skillful amateur detective will find enough mental exercise in the attempt to fathom the mystery. The most exacting audience can find little to criticise in the work of the St. James players. We were frankly prejudiced against Bernard Nedell when we found him cast for the role which belonged so logically to Houston Richards, but his performance was good enough to stifle our prejudice almost completely. It is one of his best...