Word: thrills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stiffen with small-boy excitement at the drums and tramplings of the military band. Kipling's last parade petered out before the finish, for death had halted it; but there were enough of his veterans in the march-past to give the cheering crowds the old thrill. Even his many enemies watched curiously as the late great Rudyard Kipling, eyes right, steel pen at the salute as always, passed himself in review...
...despite the opportunity for service to the cause of labor, the Student Union should make haste slowly when it comes to selling its birth-right cash down to the Lewis lieutenants. The exhilarating thrill of direct action should not dull the committee's mind to the principles for which the C.I.O. stands. Harvard labor enthusiasts would do well to make sure that the C.I.O. is not building up a vast organization of long-suffering people at the bottom of the pile just to glorify the vain and egotistical ambition...
...shortest, easiest. And one of its best customers is the Koppers group of coke, gas and by-products companies, for all of which coal is the basic raw material. The Mellons, unlike some of their contemporaries, do not play the great game of railroad strategy for the sheer thrill of it. The Virginian is a choice investment. It stayed in the black throughout Depression, earned $11.44 for each share of its common stock in the first ten months of last year...
Dignity, truthfulness, and care make the Korda-Laughton "Rembrandt" an outstandingly fine movie, one as strong and vivid as the central character. Stooping to neither thrill nor pathos the picture sweeps majestically over seventeenth century Holland, silhouetting the rugged simplicity of the painter by contrasts with petty people about him. Historical accuracy and first-rate camera work show that Hollywood on the Thames is learning the American tricks...
Decorously joining in on the national party given this week by the U. S. motor industry (see p. 93), foreign makers last week gave prosperous U. S. citizens an opportunity to recapture the thrill they had in childhood when Mother brought home from London a Daimler exactly like Queen Alexandra's or Father returned from Berlin with a bellowing Blitzen-Benz...