Word: thrillingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bolsheviks, schooled in austerity, were left behind last week as thrill-seeking young Communists staged in Moscow a lavish Red Derby complete with pari-mutuel betting. Since Moscow shops have lately been permitted to copy a few Paris models and sell them at fantastic prices to the wives of potent Reds, there were scores of modishly dressed women in the grandstands. To silence shocked old Bolsheviks, and give the Red Derby a veneer of serious purpose, great signboards were plastered with quotations from a recent speech by War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov: WITHOUT HORSES WE CAN'T WORK...
...learn, however, that young passion is not wholly dead. The author of "Kisses," who submitted 27 other poems, cried out: As the powerful wind pushes the cliffs And polishes down the canyons, Tears from sage and greasewood Their sharp and bitter odor, Flings sand in fiendish figures-I-thrill! I am mad! I am here! Take me-wild-drunk with delight...
...midshipmen marched away feeling they had given His Holiness a thrill. Remarked a Vatican official afterwards: "The Holy Father has received pilgrims from Africa who have made stranger noises than that...
...philosophical as well as a speculative cast of mind. After his killing in Amalgamated Copper, when he was only 32, he seriously considered retiring with his profits to study law and enter public life as a reform politician. For gambling for gambling's own peculiar thrill he had no love. His speculations were for profit only. More than that he was a speculator on moral principle. His credo: "I am a speculator and make no apologies for it. The word comes from the Latin speculari-to observe. I observe...
...Freedom,' a well known novelist talking about a 'New Patriotism'--phrases that illustrate just this vague fumbling. With us the recognized way of pinning down something we feel to be in the air is to adopt some cast-off phrase and put a 'New' before it. A pleasant thrill runs over the country, something which is felt to be new having been recognized...