Word: thrilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...open staid, conservative news organs and find the nose of the King-Emperor repeatedly referred to as a "snoot" has given Londoners a delicious, titillating thrill of sacrilege these many months. The sacrilege was last week not only permissible but even laudable because the London press was exulting at the slap administered by Chicago voters, to their blatantly anti-British Mayor, William Hale Thompson (see p. 11). Since Mayor Thompson invented and began the game of calling the nose of George V a snoot, the dignified and conservative London Morning Post permitted itself to gloat, last week: "Evidently the self...
Governor Fuller, Secretary of War Davis, and W. J. Bingham, Director of Harvard Athletics, are unanimously of the opinion that the general public of Boston would get an edifying thrill out of witnessing the drill of the West Point corps on Boston Common the morning of the day of the game. Even at this early date negotiations are being made with the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy. Furthermore, it is a tentative proposal that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts be given the privilege of being host to the 1200 cadets at a luncheon at the Commonwealth Armory after...
...Good citizenship and loyalty are inextricably woven into one another, forming that solid and enduring core in every American's heart that makes him spontaneously whip off his hat when Old Glory comes marching down the street fluttering its red and white stripes to the bounding breeze. What a thrill the sight of Our Flag sends coursing through the red blood of every true citizen. "Hats off! The flag is going by." This is the sentiment as the poet has crystallized...
Cortland Field Bishop bought the American Galleries five years ago. His interest in art auctions went back to the days when his father had taken him to the sales at Chickering Hall and he had felt for the first time the insidious excitement and the delicious thrill of bidding for beautiful things. Since then, he has dropped in at many auctions, adding to his private collection of French books, manuscripts, prints, and etchings. Had his father never taken him to Chickering Hall, Cortland Bishop would probably have been an inventor. He surprised his neighbors at Lenox, Mass., by buying...
This inducement to college newspaper work is evident in the secret pleasure a candidate experiences in hearing his stories discussed by his classmates, or in the thrill of knowing that he is the repository of important facts of which the ordinary student is as yet completely ignorant. Both give him a feeling of superiority, none the less gratifying because realized only by himself. There is no glory, no applause--no one is less noticed as he hurries through the streets than the quiet, inconspicuous candidate--it is merely the satisfaction of feeling that he alone of so many hundreds...