Word: thrilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dissolute, giddy Dick Gallogly, a student at Oglethorpe (Hearst-admired) University, had a hand in killing a drugstore cashier. Dick Gallogly drove the getaway car. Another student fired the shots, confessed that he and his partner had robbed and killed "for the thrill." After two mistrials, Dick pleaded guilty, and along with rich George ("Junie") Harsh of Milwaukee was imprisoned for life. His grandmother moved heaven and earth and the Journal did its bit to get Dick out, failed to persuade three successive Governors to parole or pardon him. Pampered in prison but ailing, Dick Gallogly in a hospital last...
...ardent alumni and press consumption, Whitey starts off the season with a neat pamphlet on the personnel and prospects of the team. A year ago its pages glowed with confidence to thrill the hearts of Eleazor Wheelock's sons. This fall pessimism pervades. Earl Blaik's imported Minnesota star, Bob Krieger, has been bailed abroad; but at Hanover, Whitey says "Krieger is no MacLeod by any means...
...coming competition is the last chance for Sophomores to compete for both Boards; accordingly, the editors of the CRIMSON issue a cordial invitation to any men who thrill to the sight of a big press churning out newsprint, to those who might grow to love the smell of printer's ink, to come to 14 Plympton Street tomorrow evening and see what's what
During the time at sea the men received instruction and practical experience in navigation, seamanship, engineering, and gunnery. Firing the five inch guns on board the battleship was the big thrill of the trip, it was reported, while taking the long watches was the chief hardship...
...Allentown, Pa., confessed that he too hankered to make a record. With chivalry worthy of Phileas Fogg, he finally withdrew, leaving Widow Adams unrivaled in the field. July 3rd found Widow Adams in Jodhpur, India, joshing its photophobic maharajah into posing with her for a snapshot. But her biggest thrill came in the California Clipper nearing Honolulu, when she broadcasted over a Honolulu-San Francisco radio hookup. She did not strike rough weather until she encountered an electrical storm over Nebraska...