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Word: thrill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...medley of deliriously discordant, rarely harmonious, characters-famous Artist Bidlake whose voluptuous youth has reluctantly passed into caustic Rabelaisian senility; his writer-son who flings aside a reproachful mistress for the wanton daughter of a musty scientist; a suave sadist who bullies, tortures, kills, for the sheer thrill of it; an editor-publisher, bitterly caricatured, who fleeces his authors, but shows his mistress an almost inhuman tenderness; a conversational philosopher who is said to be the author's particular mouthpiece. As such, he is a brilliantly garrulous person, for Huxley fairly seethes with things to be said about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Medley | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...BOOK OF WORDS-Rudyard Kipling-Doubleday, Doran ($3.00). A collection of speeches-1906 to 1927. Untouched by new-fangled ions and isms, the old-time Kipling remembers the lure of the Orient, the challenge of drums, the thrill of courage, the virtue in authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mentions- Oct. 8, 1928 | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...Significance. Chicago's bootleg feuds, machine gun riots, gang run politics, are matter of course; but the inside story is still matter of conjecture. Author Kantor provides likely data for the conjecture, but his inside story is of an innocent accomplice who obeys with a thrill, and wonders what it is all about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Bad City | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...Received their chief vicarious thrill of the week when David Lloyd George delivered before the Welsh Church Union in London a fiery and thoroughgoing reprimand to Christians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Jul. 9, 1928 | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

Incidentally but most importantly the thrill finders are also absorbing an unshakable conviction that the Capitalist Powers have launched a vast conspiracy to wreck the vital industries of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Shahkta | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

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