Word: thrilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 25,000 eager aficionados paid scalpers up to $200 a seat for the thrill of watching Spain's finest torero, slight, 28-year-old, chinless Manolete (born Manuel Rodríguez,), make his first appearance in the Mexican bull ring. Outside Mexico City's Plaza de Toros, some 200 Federal troops, 50 tear-gas squadmen and two fire-engine crews restrained the thousands who could not get tickets...
Three other comets discovered by Friend, all confirmed by Harvard, were spotted in April 1939, November 1939 and January 1941. The third gave him his biggest thrill. It was a comet 1,500 times larger than the earth, traveling at some 2,000 miles a minute, and had the highest inclination of any comet on record: two degrees short of straight...
...London, bumptious, brilliant Jacob Epstein unbared his new Lucifer (see cut) which looked something like a winged cigar-store Indian. It was less likely than his prodigiously progenitorial Adam to be exhibited by others for a cheap pornographic thrill (TIME, April 29, 1940). Lucifer had been modeled in clay, then cast in bronze, possessed the refined detail peculiar to modeled figures...
...Happy Boyhood. As any reader of The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime might guess, H. T. Webster had a happy boyhood. He spent it in Tomahawk, Wis. (pop. 3,365) where his dad ran the drugstore. Tomahawk (the way Webster remembers it) was a little town afloat in a forest where deer and small game were plentiful, the lakes and streams were stiff with fish, you could run onto the tracks of bear often enough almost to believe you had seen them and killed them, and school was no more interesting than it is in most other places...
...mild, wholesome Gasoline Alley, Chic Young's Blondie, J. R. Williams' homely cowhands and mechan ics in Out Our Way, and Gluyas Williams' middle-aged suburbanites - you have about exhausted the field. Yet, characteristically, Webster disagrees with the critics who think today's sexed-up, thrill-happy comics are a menace to adolescent morals. Says he : "I used to hide my dime novels. Eventually I made the discovery that good books were better. I don't think it matters a hoot." The Quiet Life. During the 1920s Webster was a member in good standing...