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Word: thrilled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual Easter dance, Chief David Crowchild decreed that she should be known to all Sarcees as Sootz-ah-tsa (Shining Star). As Barbara Ann headed back to her Palliser Hotel suite, Calgary Albertan Reporter Art Evans took over for the final ecstatic burble: "Obviously tired but wearing the thrill of her Indian adoption like a happy mantle, Shining Star quietly slipped away to her tepee, there to dream of cool waters, soft winds, and the Great Manitou who guards the sleep of all sweet maidens who believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ALBERTA: My Very Own | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...previous Arena dogfights, Crimson guards have kept him down to 13 and 14 points, and, if they can do it again tonight, another thrill-a-minute affair seems probable. HARVARD YALE Rockwell f Lavelli Gannon t Nadherny Prior c Joyce McCurdy g Redden Brady g Peacock

Author: By Ronald M. Foster jr., | Title: Lavelli-Led Bulldog Quintet Invades Arena Floor Tonight | 3/6/1948 | See Source »

...first movie I ever saw without knowing something of its direction, cast or story. So it was a double thrill to watch the unfolding of this superb picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...Beauty. No lover of MSS. is likely to dispute the fascination of the Lockwood Collection, or fail to thrill at seeing a poem's genesis in a forest of sharp erasures, half-illegible inserts, blots, missteps and idle doodles. But only five work sheets are reproduced in Poets at Work, and the comments in the four essays which make up this book do not suggest that the analysts are likely to get far in pinning down the poetic mystery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peeping Toms | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...Thrill-a-Second. Broadway was less excited. He did get a job speaking lines, of a sort. They were spoken very sharply and very fast at a World's Fair ride called the Meteor Speedway. The lines began: "A-thrill-a-second-a-mile-a-minute-around-the-walls-of-an-upright-BOWL! . . . Come on, brother . . . defy the laws of gravity! . . ." Shortly before the venture folded, Peck took a job ushering tourists around Rockefeller Center, where his performances were no more outstanding. Until he learned better, he innocently assured other eager outlanders that Brooklyn was a part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Leading Man | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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