Word: thrills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vessels built with U. S. loans under the new Merchant Marine Act. A whistle tooted; Mrs. Hoover put down her roses, took a basketed bottle of spring water, cracked it smartly over the moving prow, exclaimed: "I christen thee Excalibur." Declared the first lady: "I got a real thrill when my hand touched the bow of that powerful vessel." Later in the week at Camp May Flather near Harrisonburg, Va. Mrs. Hoover broke an ivy rope, presented a 100-ft. rustic bridge across North river to the girl scouts (to whom she is "Buffalo...
Opera-lovers in Argentina's outlands last week tuned in by radio on the program broadcast from famed Colon Opera House at Buenos Aires, prepared to thrill to the voice of the booming Russian basso, Feodor Ivanovitch Chaliapin. Especially eager were they, for Chaliapin had declared that after he fulfills Argentine and Chile engagements he will return to the U. S., sing a few times, then retire...
...together." Correct perhaps as to "so far" and "so well together" but not as to number. While stationed at Nixville, near Verdun, late in 1918 (September or October, I believe), many American and Allied soldiers including the 5th U. S. Division and others in battle around Montfaucon enjoyed the thrill that came from a flight reported (London Daily Mail, Army Edition) to include 310 Allied planes of all kinds and descriptions. First came a wave or "v" formation of seven planes. This was not unusual. Slightly interesting. In a moment, another similar formation- still not too unusual. Within...
...Flora C. Franks, widowed mother of Bobby Franks who was kidnaped May 22, 1924 and butchered by thrill-hunting Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, turned the first spadeful of earth for a three-story clubhouse memorial to her dead son in Chicago. The memorial, provided for in Franks Sr.'s will and abuilding under supervision of the Young Men's Jewish Charities, will be equipped with gymnasium, swimming tank and complete athletic plant...
...forced to continue. But the modicum of truth remains that progress does not regularly take place along the line of least resistance. Unless the secondary graduate has learned that the satisfaction of a problem vigorously and wisely attacked, of a job well done, is an adequate substitute for the thrill of superficial interest, unless he has developed a measure of intellectual curiosity and mental will-power, he is unlikely to be a success in college, whatever his facility in a direction where he may have found case and entertainment. These are the most important liquid assets which the secondary school...