Word: thrilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above average A picture quality, RKO scarcely knew what to make of the situation. Finally the publicity department hit on a scheme. Instead of inviting critics in a body to a gala preview, RKO invited them in small groups to semiprivate showings, hoping thus to give each group the thrill of discovery. The scheme succeeded almost too well. By the time it was finally ready for release last week, A Man to Remember was one of the most pre-discovered pictures on record, appeared likely to have trouble living up to its advance ballyhoo...
...sundry to come to the Big Show, instead of pleading with the public to ignore the boy and permit sanity to overcome hysteria. John Warde was offered a baseball game, instead of a job. Whatever his last thoughts may have been, it is certain he received the thrill of his unimportant lifetime to find himself in the spotlight, which is all he started out to do in the first place. Whether he jumped or fell, is immaterial now. The fact remains that he was murdered by a sensation-hungry pack of human wolves...
...standard periodical like the single light of a one-eyed car. Good writing can never take the place of good research, but the scholar who has something to say and says it well will command attention. Scientists are still humans, and they cannot experience an emotional thrill over an article entitled, 'A Short Dissertation on the Effects of Alcoholic Tincture of Rotenone in the Control of Thrips on Six-weeks Old Spinach Plants in Richmond and Queens Boroughs,' especially if the article concludes that the tincture has no material effect on the thrips. Mr. Friedenberg suggested that university...
John L. Barr Jr. '39 achieved golfdom's greatest thrill yesterday afternoon when he scored a hole-in-one on the 210-yard 12th hole at the Belmont Country Club. He used a number four wood in accomplishing the feat...
...Biggest thrill to the Juan Tomas children, however, was not Albuquerque's civilization but the wonders of nature. They insisted on seeing the zoo twice, were most awed by the monkeys and lions. Said a sparkling-eyed 5-year-old, looking at the ostrich: "Oh, what a big chicken...