Word: thriller
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...greatest thriller of the season is a brief scene in the front-line trench when companies of American and British soldiers climb over the top and fall in behind a wicked-looking tank that sweeps out across No Man's Land. It looks, sounds and smells like the real thing, and, as they say of circus features, is alone worth the price of admission...
...program of outdoor events will be run off tomorrow. After the hockey game with Bishops College the regular carnival events will begin with the ski-joring race, when the carnival visitors will see a real thriller, with the fast horses and their drivers trailing behind on skis. The ski and snowshoe dashes, ski cross-country race, snowshoe obstacle race, a ski-jumping contest for boys under 14, and exhibition jumping by university and alumni jumpers wll complete the events of the afternoon...
...third in the judges' estimate, "The Rescue," by Rita C. Smith. It pictures the culminating horrors of a girl who inherited madness from her mother. The play of J. W. D. Seymour '17, "Trespass," is the only one to be offered written by an undergraduate. This play is the thriller of the set. Two coal-miners, imprisoned in a cave-in, find themselves to have been participants in a domestic tragedy. In the gloom of the subterranean gallery, one strangles the other...
...face of death and its dread alternative, matrimony, our friends find heart for song and dancing, yet the story bravely progresses towards its climax, with real sparks crackling from the wireless machine. All the characters turn up, and even the red-headed office-boy performs heroic deeds. The real thriller, of course, is the rescue in the nick of time by the naval officer in a white uniform fresh from Lewando...