Word: thrills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jazz Thrill Baby Birth Control Flirtation Unmarried Mother Night Club Victorian Free Love Old Maid Flaming Youth After they have talked and laughed over the "word test," boys & girls may try the "opinion test," deciding quickly whether the statements about drinking, dancing and fornication are true or false. Then they are ready for discussion of problems based upon such questions as these (For girls): What is wrong in spooning, just letting a boy put his arm around you and kissing you? What is "passion"? What if a boy just steals a kiss? (For boys): What sensations (evil) come from spooning...
Beacon Hill felt a thrill of horror creep up its asphalt as it became conscious of the most recent number of the New Yorker. Even the Back Bay may have quaked a little to discover its secretary of the navy quoted as writing to the president of Harvard College; "Dear Lawrence--Long a student of heraldry, I have satisfied myself that the only families north of the Mason and Dixon line entitled to bear arms are the Winthrops and Saltonstalls." This was apropos of the question of putting a coat of arms on the gable end of the new unit...
...patronizingly, assured their guests that there were no more bandits in Corsica, "not since the great Romanetti was shot." Porters and humble shopkeepers were not so sure. "There is always Caviglioli," they muttered. Nobody had seen Caviglioli, nobody would say what he looked like. As the season progressed French thrill-seekers from the mainland† decided that Caviglioli the Bandit was a myth. Last week Caviglioli the Bandit appeared where the tourists were thickest, at the new Corsican resort of Guagno les Bains. Caviglioli turned out to be a squat, middle-aged fellow with a weather-beaten face, two pistols...
...speed 24 hours a day and still not get everything done right. . . . The most reasonable analogy that comes to mind is between a city editor and the manager of a baseball team. . . . Each knows the disappointment of seeing a presumably good man fall down on his job. and the thrill of a neat piece of work by a newcomer...
...executed them. The lighting and sound effects are likewise eminently successful. Mr. Harris in his pre-view needlessly promised the first-night audience an exercise of its imagination in order to appreciate this scene. (No sooner does the curtain rise upon it than the spectator senses the tensity and thrill of this situation on board a warship speeding through the night to do battle...