Word: thrills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case exactly to his taste when the potman of a pub in South London went nosing down into a cellar disused for years. Next door to the pub is the Old Surrey Theatre, now being torn down but in Queen Victoria's day the mecca of thrill-thirsty folk who loved to see dramas of ripe, purple blood and thunder...
This morning, its pages charged with pictures and stories of angelic cleanness, "Lampy" brought out a new issue. But we, its unhappy readers, miss the zest and blood-tingling thrill of phrases saturated with double meanings. Gone are the days when men were men and jokes were jokes. The inexorable censor has done his work. Within a few short weeks he has changed vivacious "Lampy" into reading matter fit for the suckling babe, has transformed the flirtatious courtesan into the demure virgin. Thus we lament the decease of a spirit which filled our hearts with glee and our minds with...
...college. Of course we do not want to be catty, and we certainly wouldn't like for Wellesley, Vassar, and Smith to think we have been doing anything unfair--but isn't it just too divine for words. Everyone has known for a long time that Dartmouth boys thrill us no end, but it is indeed gratifying to know that our feeling is returned...
...both films, however, the plot is trivial, trite, and distinctly unlikely. In both the chief reason d'etre consists of "thrill scenes" such as plane crackups and mysterious murders and of the clowning provided by Beery and Joe Bags in one movie and by Miss Collier in the other...
...Marjory Tilley Switz was revealed at the trial to have received 90,000 francs ($5,900), thus ending reports that she "spied for pure excitement and thrill...