Word: thrillingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Hattie Caraway of Arkansas, dressed as usual in black, made a little history at 65, became the first woman to sit as president of the U.S. Senate. Henry Wallace had appointed her that for a day. She found it "quite a thrill...
...good band under a capable bandmaster playing a Sousa march (as the composer wrote it) or any other standard march will thrill and inspire the marching soldiers. The sad thing is that most bands never rehearse marches at all or, if they do, not as they should...
...thrill of the game between the fourth and sixth platoon last week came when Scotty Hodges stretched a three-bagger into a home run to aid "Strikeout" Hillger pitch the fourth to a nine to six victory...
...year, celebrated, then discovered she had been duped by a mirage. The raise put her in a higher withholding-tax bracket, added $96 a year in tax deductions, $5 a year to her retirement-fund payments. Her semimonthly paycheck before the raise: $78.24. After: $78.20. By March the thrill will be gone...
Like its New York inspiration, this is a hodge-podge of stars--actors, singers, dancers, band leaders-all rolled up into one supposedly stupendous entity. unlike the real thing, however, the picture lacks that thrill of intimate contact which-insured the success of its real-life predecessor and substitutes a series of Acts, some good, some bad, with just the feeblest at tempt at a unifying theme...