Word: thrilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a thrill of satisfaction and appreciation indeed that the student body noted the letter, published in yesterday's Pennsylvanian, written by Captain Henry on the behalf of the Harvard crew, in which he expressed his thanks for the hospitality which had been shown to the crew men from Cambridge by the university and its students. Short and to the point, but sincere in its brevity, the note embodied in it a warm feeling of gratitude for the efforts of our crew management and the men themselves to do all they could to give the Crimson oarsmen ever opportunity...
...does give one a distinct thrill, however, to handle a book constructed in 1391 if one has any sentimental feelings at all about books. Perhaps Plato is too impersonal to arouse such a feeling; but certainly the stories which one has read become a most intimate part of one's nature. People enjoy stories chiefly because they can make themselves the heroes; one's imagination permits one to undergo every hardship, every triumph. The result is that no one can read 'The Toilers of the Sea" without reflecting some of the grandeur of soul of the hero...
...same time others may thrill. Both emotions are unnecessary. The eroticism in the book is not so dreadfully crass, and what there is of it generally serves but as a background for a subtle parable. Subtlety and power are indeed more evident in these few verses than in most of the modern American poetry we have read. Coming back once more to our friend who writes in red ink on the wrapper, we can supplement his generalities with particulars. For in many of his lines Mr. Wolf strikes chords strangely similar to those touched by Edna St. Vincent Millay...
...knows what treasures may not be uncovered by the inquiring eye of the haunter of bookshops? Who knows what bibliographic gem may not fall beneath his searching fingers, what miraculous volume, lost through the years, may not turn up to give the thrill that comes once in a lifetime, filling his brain with the pride of discovery and his pockets with the gold of treasure-trove...
...much less provocation in this country before. And were the lady to be let off scot-free and undoubted interest would be added at all performances in the future. Heretofore most movie-murders have been perpetrated on the screen, and the audience has contented itself with a passively vicarious thrill. Recently, even, melodrama has slopped over on to the stage producing several bundred more unjustifiable homieides at which the audience has crected its small hairs in horror. But with the possibility of having a mysterious knife thrust among one's ribs for inadvertent observations on the picture, even a news...