Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Menace. U. S. chemical manufacturers are alarmed. Francis P. Garvan, alert President of the Chemical Foundation in New York and spokesman for U. S. producers, regards the combination as a menace. Said he last week: "Is there an American with soul so dead as not to thrill at this threat? . . . What was our position in 1914? That position can come again and will come again unless all the American people unite against this combine threatening their peace and their prosperity. . . . Don't make the mistake of thinking this is a dye fight, or a nitrate fight, or a rayon...
...means let us do away with the simplicity of the present cheer--which is so simple that spontaneity is said to creep into it at times--a rare presence in any organized cheer. Let us instead drill a chorus of bright-clothed acrobats to thrill visitors to Cambridge with antic contortions on the side lines. For the present cheer, with the pounding weight of lung-power behind it, with its full energy directed to the field and to the game there being played,--let us substitute an ingenious concoction of shrieks, whistles, walls, and hoarse laughter, the latter evincing that...
Fertilizer was added to the root so to speak, when he read Prescott's account of the conquest of the country. And after all, he must be a hardened sophisticate who would not thrill over the expedition of Pizarro with his mere handful of men, an expedition of mingled courage and treachery that reads like a fairly tale...
...Chancelleries of Europe experienced a thrill. What were these two statesmen up to? Enquiries were made and elicited from Spanish representatives in London and Madrid that the conversations between the two statesmen were no more than an exchange of official courtesies. Diplomats then put the whole matter down to an attempt on the part of Sir Austen to guide Spain back into the fold of the League of Nations. How else explain his friendliness for a nation that was not on good terms with the League...
...They set one parent's shame against the thrill of a million people. It isn't fair...