Word: thrills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aside from all these mundane returns, there is that inward satisfaction which comes to men of a type when they see their productions in print. To write an editorial, to see it in print, to hear it discussed and to remain anonymous,--there is all the thrill that any man could desire. And the price is not too great; for most men who try the grade find that a more careful account of their time and closer concentration when actually studying result in marks as good if not better than were customary before entering the competition...
...almost too much for most of us to think that students will actually be compelled to play games with each other on their own campuses, merely for physical development and the fun of it without the immense thrill of appearing in a stadium thronged with 60,000 spectators. Someone has suggested that the athletic undergraduates may be forced to give up to study the time and talents that were meant for providing the populace with a great spectacle. Let us trust they will not use this new motive as a reason for continued hoping and praying for the return...
...South Seas', prematurely got a melodramatic money's-worth while their boat was still tied to the dock. The trip's impresario, a middle-aged professional soldier-of-for-tune named Valerian Johannes Tieczynski, alias Captain Walter Wanderwell, fantastically paid for his clients' thrill with his life...
...syivan nymphs; he can throw the property sordid glamour over Marline, the whore refusing a be in a flop-house because she intends to return to the respectability of the stage. Von Sternberg's fault is that he is old-fashioned; he believes that people still get a great thrill from seeing a mammoth locomotive roaring down the tracks; unlike any Freshman living in the Yard he does not know that in a skyscraper age the Sadie Thompsons have changed the Sadie Thompson costume for some thing resembling what even Die Dietrich herself wears in her more respectable moments...
...balloon begins to fluctuate. Lieut.-Commander Settle, a mathematically-minded engineer who inspects the construction of Navy dirigibles, described their homeward voyage on the Graf in precise, unimaginative terms. But Van Orman's gaunt face brightened, his eyes shone as he exclaimed: "Never have I had such a thrill as when I went aboard that ship! After being knocked about by thunderstorms in the most primitive craft that flies-then to stretch my legs under a table in the Graf's saloon and have a steward hand me a wine list about this long-the contrast left...