Word: thrillingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kyte of our town is authority for the statement, "And even the Big Shots rather thrill at the term Big Shot...
...France during the reign of Louis XVI. Undaunted by the fact that the Bastille has just fallen, a band of gallants and their lady friends come to roister in the tavern of one Prospère. The host has planted actors in the crowd to relate bloodcurdling events, thrill the guests, give them their money's worth. Climax of the satire comes when one mummer, having proclaimed that he has just murdered his wife's lover, finds out that his wife actually has a lover, kills him as he enters the resort...
...borrow an old definition, a parade is composed of one band, twelve hundred kaydets, and five thousand spectators. The band plays, the kaydets stand and gripe, and the spectators thrill and go home resolving to be 100 per cent Americans and vote the straight Republican tickets. Some kaydets enjoy parades--Graduation Parade, for instance, because it's the last one. But the average kaydet doesn't enjoy the average parade...
...your continued use of the obsolete term Tycoon. Why not replace it with Big Shot? Everyone knows what Big Shot means. It is more than slang-it is part of the American language. It would fit in with your telling and picturesque phrases. And even the Big Shots rather thrill at the term Big Shot. E. G. KYTE...
...tricks of shooting people through telephone receivers, kniving them by lynx-eyed orientals, or burning them with vats of green acid no longer provide their old thrill. Audiences yawn. The old stunt of indicating the degree of hauntedness of house by having a darky groan "Oh Lawdy, Lawdy" simply wore itself...