Word: aghast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first of his three nominations for the presidency. Ainslie Pryor, as Bryan, got a rococo fervor into his big "Cross of Gold" speech that captured the deadlocked convention and enabled the Great Commoner to enter-and lose-the presidential race against William McKinley. Circle Theater took another aghast look at Communist intrigue with The Case of Colonel Petrov,who defected two years ago from the Soviet embassy in Australia. As pictured on TV by Michael Gorrin, Petrov seemed far too dumb to have been head of Red espionage down under, and the show spent much of its time commiserating over...
Landis) commands her to dance with the tutor to make the prince jealous. The princess is aghast. "I would have sent for a duke from Vienna," her mother apologizes, "but there was no time . . . You'll wear gloves, of course, darling-long ones." Even with gloves, the tutor is too hot to handle. He sets the princess on fire, and by the time the blaze is finally under control, the rest of the flimsy plot has gone pleasantly up in smoke...
Bypassed Phantoms. The gas bill's supporters, anxious to get it passed and rid gas producers of federal supervision, were aghast. The contribution to Case, suggested Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Mike Monroney, was a "dead cat" planted by an opponent of the bill so as to cast suspicion on all Senators voting for the measure. And, snapped Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright, Case had better be ready to detail his charges "if he expects to stay in public life." Between the time of Case's speech and the day on which the gas-bill vote...
...hard to learn from Gauguin, acknowledged: "At times I look like that, absolutely exhausted yet charged with electricity." But after a tiresome day in a nearby museum had set the two men arguing their rapidly diverging views of art, Gauguin cruelly finished off the portrait. Said Van Gogh, staring aghast at the portrait: "Yes. it's me all right...
...breach-of-contract suits brought against her by a Manhattan lawyer. Windmilling in outrage and trilling furiously in English and Italian, Grand Diva Callas erupted: "Get your hands off me! Don't touch me, don't touch me! Chicago will be sorry for this!" As the servers, aghast at having a tigress by the tail, retreated, La Callas, cheered on by theater employees and fans, bared her fangs to cry: "I will not be served! I have the voice of an angel! No man can serve me!" Then she lunged into her dressing room. Long after the platoon...