heartthrobbern.

1875 Oakland (Calif.) Evening Tribune 11 Jan. A perpetual partnership has been formed between Vermilion Heartthrobber, of Hymentown, and Penelope Dewdrop, of Venusville.]

1903 Logansport (Indiana) Pharos 27 Feb. 4/2 Mitla's only hour of throbbing excitement is when our edition is pulled off the apparatus every Saturday afternoon... A balmy climate, music and song and getting out our weekly Heart Throbber fill the measure of a modest ambition.

1909 Plumbers' Trade Jrnl. 1 Mar. 292/2 ‘America’ was sung first, and this heart-throbber, as well as ‘Columbia, Gem of the Ocean’, were chorused from a standing position.

1922 Life 2 Nov. 26/1 All the old rural thrillers and heart throbbers are being dragged bodily from the musty archives, and whipped into celluloid form.

1946 B. Treadwell Big Bk. of Swing 102/2 The early buildup of the male heart-throbber is the most difficult job.

1967 J. Pudney Spill Out 33 These are spoiled words, A phrase debased, and worn tin thin By salesmen, slop-mongers, sugar-stars, Heaven-pointers, heart-throbbers, Slogan-hacks, giggle-pigs, kicksters, Soul-gobblers.

1975 Washington Post 17 Dec. (Sports section) d1/3 The Bullets held Buffalo scoreless for the final 2 minutes 13 seconds and won a heart throbber, 100-94, before 10,185 at Capital Centre.

1982 W. Pennsylvania Hist. Mag. Oct. 316 Appearing on the Stanley's stage with Buddy Rogers, one of the then current crop of movie heartthrobbers, it was Dick Powell, not Rogers, who stole the show.

2013 W. N. Wilbert Baseball's Iconic 1–0 Games iv. 101 Addie had beaten the grizzled warrior Cy Young in one of those heart-throbbers by a narrow 1–0 margin.