Word: thrills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City, having his first airplane ride. Said he: "For eight or nine years, ever since I first saw airships flying over North Bay, Callander and Corbeil, Ont.-on the lookout for forest fires, you know-I've wanted to fly. It's the biggest thrill of my life, since the birth of the quints...
...taken their place, and they are equally strong ideals, just as potent and less easily out-moded. Of these, the chief one is the growing unwillingness of the youth of the democratic world to settle its differences by bloodshed. In short, the post-war generations may have failed to thrill or sob yesterday; they may have spent the holiday at the movies or in other relaxations; and they have been bored with eulogies and speeches. Yet, despite their indifference to past wars and celebrations of past victories, this one thing they are sure of: they want no part in future...
...University of Indiana, as handsome, attractive, and possessing the "initiative, ingenuity and abilities that are characteristic of leaders," Thief Conwell seems alternately proud and ashamed of his profession, was probably most sincere when he wrote: "It involves as much hard work as any other business. There is little thrill about it. . . . What the hell could anyone find to like about stealing, working hard all the time, always being likely to land in the can, paying over to the coppers and the fixers everything he gets...
...course the stage is Ed's preference as a dramatic medium. And comedians are his favorite type of actors; comedy is the highest form of acting, so he says, for it's much harder to make an audience laugh than to make it cry or to thrill it. About the cleanliness of humor. Ed was serious, and leaned forward intently as he stated his views. "There's no achievement in making an audience laugh with a dirty or risque joke, because that joke depends merely upon its vulgar inferences. The true comedian, in my humble opinion...
...when the distinguished Mr. Luis Firpo visited the U. S., our sports writers not only pronounced his name Furpo,* but also they called him, among other things, an Argentinean. This was encouraging, but it was nothing to the thrill of seeing, on p. 42 of your issue of Oct. 11, the concocted word Argentinean twice repeated...