Word: thrilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picture then slows to an annoying pace. Even the Indian war dance and struggles atop high precipices fail to arouse the average movie goer. A climax in which the hero races a Ford containing two cheating palefaces is replete with all the nonsensical devices which made the western serial thrill of 10 years ago pass into bad repute...
...task of issuing a Pictorial Section every other week. He not only experiences the first glamor of newspaper work, when he learns the mechanical mysteries of how half-tones are made and how the presses rhythmically roll out their printed pages, but his vanity is tickled by the thrill of seeing his own handiwork impressed on thousands of papers. His photographer's pass permits him to brush elbows with his professional brethren of the "Fourth Estate" at intercollegiate baseball games and track meets...
There has always been thought to be an element of chance in the taking of examination; the thrill of the unknown captivates those not too seriously impressed by the marvels of modern academic machinery, but the entire possibilities have-suffered from neglect. The laws of mechanics have governed too closely the college student and he has followed with particular regularity, the well known rule of a body once set in motion in a given direction...
Mohammed and King Canute were no less successful in their contests with the forces of nature than are most attempts of mere mortals to feel the thrill of seating in the seats of the mighty. And yet, in metaphor at least, that is what the applicants are privileged to do in this trial of their judgment. For, to choose but one from a notable array of the great, has not the one and only Babe Ruth rendered his verdict in just such a test? The name of an equally famous athlete who is rumored to have chosen wrongly...
...written for one class of people, and one class only for those in whose hearts lives the love of Christmas for its own sake. To those few who do not have this love, to those for whom the lighted shop windows decorated with holly and red ribbon hold no thrill, the pungent odor of the Christmas trees no memories, and the clear, sweet sound of the Christmas carols no dreams, these stories will mean little they will be merely well-written sentimentality...