Word: thrillingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While delegates from 31 states were dining & dancing at the 39th annual convention of the National Association of Retail Grocers in Dallas, Tex. last week, the most original grocer in the U. S. was preparing to give housewives another exciting thrill in Memphis, Tenn. Name of that grocer was Clarence Saunders, a onetime miner who likes to wrestle with financial problems all night in a bathtub of hot water. Name of his latest merchandising excitement: Keedoozle Corp. Cried Keedoozler Saunders: "Within a year I'll be worth $10,000,000. I won't have that much on hand...
...budget is God-controlled. There is a real thrill and purpose in teas and dinner parties"-Mrs. Howard Reynolds. "I took time off from studying the part to listen to what God had to tell me. All fear of competition vanished"-Marion Clayton Anderson, bit player in Mutiny on the Bounty...
...story of the Penn and Drake Relays, TIME fully reported Runner Cunningham's record, characterized that extra-meet event as "No. i thrill." TIME'S sportswriter, no provincial, impartially observed of the trackmen at Philadelphia and Des Moines that "both groups gave spectators few records, many thrills." Space limitations prevented TIME from publishing a play-by-play account of either meet...
That one was the Hearstian tabloid Daily Mirror, recently put under the direction of Jacquin Leonard ("Jack") Lait, oldtime Hearst thrill-writer. Fortnight ago the Mirror began a six-part daily feature called "Fiorenza's Own Amazing Story." Authorship was credited to "John Fiorenza, as told to David B. Charnay, Mirror staff correspondent." Gist was that the upholsterer's assistant had nourished an unrequited but undiscouraged love for Mrs. Titterton, who had previously rejected his advances, but, as an aspiring writer, had not hesitated to "pump" him for "copy...
No.1 track thrill for the 18,000 spectators was furnished by Kansan Glenn Cunningham. Apparently rejuvenated, after a disappointing indoor season, Miler Cunningham in a special race cagily let two capable competitors set the pace, unleashed a terrific spurt at the finish to set a new U. S. outdoor record...