Word: thrills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immemorial prerogatives of the collegiate journalist. To damn with faint praise a now more fashionable than to deplore; to poll has become both cumbrous and prosaic; but to sent out a petition, preferably one raising some great and starting issue, can still be relied upon to achieve the sweet thrill of fame. And so the Brown Herald, oppressed by the taedium vitae, thought it might be a good thing to count heads on one of our more perplexing problems. Accordingly the Brown student body, and all owners of college printing presses, were asked to unite against "bearing arms except...
...interpolation wooden enough to make a 13th Century miracle play seem like a production by Noel Coward. All four sexes are represented, besides a Banker, a Society Boy, a Negro Poet, an Indian Lecturer, an Agitator, a Sweet Old Thing. It is not surprising that these, and his thrill-chasing wife, drive young Daniel to self-destruction as the curtain falls...
...publishing concerning Dr. Andrews' Central Asiatic work. The other eleven are specialized & academic-geology, topography, fossils, reptiles, fishes, mammals of Mongolia and China. The New Conquest of Central Asia recounts for laymen the lively adventures of the expeditions. It describes the nomad life of the Gobi Desert, the thrill of discovering fossils, the troubles of dealing with bandits. It is a narrative for those who must do their exploring from an easy-chair. But Dr. Andrews fears few easy-chairmen will buy a book that looks & sounds as scholarly as The New Conquest of Central Asia. It costs...
...lovely ladies and a sense of humor, was Lloyd George's "schoolboy ambassador" to Lenin and Trotsky when their government was young. Women and Bolsheviks were his weakness. He relates in "British Agent" his narrow escapes from both with such frankness that one feels throughout the book the added thrill of truth...
...from the cup. The expert is closer, say, 12 to 15 feet. But each will take two putts and halve the hole. If the cups were bigger, the average player still would take his two putts . . . but the expert . . . would knock his in every time. There would be the thrill. . . . The payoff in golf is to get that second shot close...