Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Golden Earrings (Paramount) must have been intended as quite a novelty. Audiences were to thrill to the spectacle of a Dietrich Without Glamor: her famous legs lost in gypsy petticoats, her looks in gypsy greasepaint, her trick accent reduced to gypsy gutturals barely distinguishable from stock-company wigwam banter...
...dour, one crudely comic, are exactly right as a child's idea of bad men. The players are all so likable and unaffected, and the universal moods of childhood adventure are so persuasive, that young moviegoers will probably forgive even the Australian accents. They may get their stiffest thrill-and the one least easily shared by their lily-livered escorts-watching the black boy eat live grubs...
...long weeks ago. Since then, the Council committee has stumbled through three consecutive plans to save food, written a poll on each plan, vetoed each poll, and consistently fumbled the ball in every interview with the Dinning Hall management. The past month and a half has resulted in a thrill-packed orgy of neat, little plans and smashed, neat, little plans. During this time not one ounce of wheat has been saved nor one nickel set aside to buy C.A.R.E. packages...
...Lamar, that tall Southern gentleman who exhorts his charges with an intense, pleasant voice blending a Dixie drawl and Bostonian, it is that kind of exhibition that makes his task worthwhile. "It's a tremendous thrill to see the boys you've coached as Freshmen make good," he beams. An unusually high percentage of Lamar-coached footballers have received letters in their sophomore year...
Many people get a guilty thrill out of listening in on a party line, spying on the family next door or reading other folks' postcards. Last week, radio listeners were enjoying the same sort of snooping on a new show called Candid Microphone...