Word: thrills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pulsing with the thrill of it, Joe Grew at Lahore "straddled the Big Gun as Kim had done." Then he plunged into the deeper East to write that he loved its "vivid colors and majestic smells." He still does, despite what the East did to him. In the Malay States malaria deafened one ear and nearly killed him. He came home to write a book about tiger hunting, Sport and Travel in the Far East, passionately resolved not to go into Boston banking. For a scion of the aloof Grews the only way to live in the places with magic...
...many years we have admired the originality of the Harvard Faculty in thinking up semi-studious ways of filling in a spare hour, For example, there is that society of thrill-hunters known as the Odd Volume Club. Ah to be an Odd Volumer...
Such tactics sent a thrill of fear through conservative Californians. Since the August primaries, reported San Francisco financial houses fortnight ago, State, county, district and city bonds have shrunk $50,000,000 in value, with State bonds showing a 6% decline, while bonds of Missouri dropped 1½%, bonds of Illinois less than 1% in the same period...
...Happiness lies not in the possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement; in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits." (Has the "thrill of creative effort" been too much for the farmer? If not, why does A.A.A. encourage with financial reward--the gaining of which, according to the President, never brings "happiness"--the reduction of crops? Or isn't it an "achievement" to produce food...
...crackle with the thrill of new adventure but no fireside speech save his first pursued so definite an aim as the President's microphone effort last week...