Word: daze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven-room Roosevelt apartment in Washington Square. There were more newsmen to be brushed aside. Under the canopy huddled a group of women; one stepped forth and said bravely: "It's a pleasure to have you for a neighbor." Mrs. Roosevelt, deep in the what-did-I-forget daze of moving day, managed a smile, waved a hand...
...Daze. In Cleveland a swain telephoned his girl from a drugstore, found when he hung up that the store was closed for the night. He phoned police, who released...
Leaning too heavily on the glass covering which sheltered the exhibits an over-zealous Biology D student had come out of his daze to find himself staring at an equally wide and glassy-eyed speciman of early American lobster. "Pardon me," was his sole comment. "Think nothing of it," replied his victim...
...part as if he were kidding the quickie horse opera. His ability and experience partly inoculate Actor Barrymore against his ridiculous role, enable him to scatter a few flickers of reality. The others (Laraine Day, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers) seem to walk through their parts in a mechanical daze...
...House floor. Gentle Bob Ramspeck, victory in sight, got tough. He took the floor for 18 explosive minutes, with his Georgia drawl grown corrosive, laid about him with two years' pent-up wrath. When he was through, spoilsmen's bodies were figuratively heaped around him. In a daze the House passed the bill, 206-to-139. With Mr. Ramspeck to the White House last week must have marched the ghosts of all the Presidents who have been harassed to desperation by appointments; President James A. Garfield, slain by a disappointed office seeker; perhaps even the shadow of Louis...