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Word: thrilling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brass-buttoned upholder of the law listening intently to make sure that such a misleading and damaging term as "black and tan" is not employed. The logical sequence, of course will be the "blind puppie" where, for two or three times the ordinary price, one may still feel the thrill of quietly whispering to the man behind the counter: "One hot-dog plenty of mustard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE REFORM | 10/10/1923 | See Source »

SEVENTH HEAVEN?Helen Menken injects a great thrill into the slums of Paris with aid of a depraved sister, a romantic sewer diver, and Eloise, a taxicab with three cylinders in the grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Oct. 1, 1923 | 10/1/1923 | See Source »

...mechanical and humdrum. It would be an overdose of ippecac to ask such a man to read nothing but political and church news. When he reads about a murder, he identifies himself with the villain or the victim, he hears the gun crack, and thus he gets his daily thrill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MURDERS OF THE RUE PAPUA | 10/1/1923 | See Source »

...yearly thrill in the Casino this year was supplied by an unnamed Armenian resident of Paris who, in two hours, lost 900,000 francs ($41,850.00). Last year André Citroën, famous French automobile manufacturer, was the public cynosure. He was reported to have won more than 1,000,000 francs, about $65,000 at that time, at a single sitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Baccarat | 8/20/1923 | See Source »

...pride in association with the making of the American press, the best press in the world, resolve upon a full appraisal of our responsibilities and see that Conscience is maintained as editor-in-chief, and that Accomplishment writes the big ' beats ' which are ever giving the exhilarating thrill to the daily grind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Editor-in-Chief | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

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