Word: daze
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...labor began. The astounding fortitude of girls "in trouble'' sustained her, stifled her groans, betrayed her labor to her parents by not so much as a grimace. After her parents went to bed, she went to the bathroom. There, alone and without sound, crouching in a tormented daze, she bore her son. She thought, she swore in court last week, that he was born dead. After a rest the girl gathered her infant in her arms, mounted to the tenement roof. She walked to the neighboring airshaft, planning, she swore, to toss self and child over the edge...
...called the "Tex Rickard of Europe." Last week Promoter Dickson arrived in Manhattan on his annual visit to his homeland, promptly proved that his nickname scarcely did his talents justice. As well as talking Promoter Jacobs, long Rickard's right-hand man, into an admiring daze. Promoter Dickson explained to reporters a few more of his immediate projects: a European tour for one-time Champion Max Baer; a European heavyweight elimination tournament conducted under the auspices of the Paris Soir; a series of indoor bullfights at his Palais des Sports, with matadors from Madrid. From New York Promoter Dickson...
Even for the most humble little German who wanders in a daze through modern art galleries, the Realmleader had a heartening, thunderous word. "We are determined not to allow cubists, futurists and others of the sort to participate in the new cultural life of Germany!" roared the man who once wanted to be an artist and ended a house painter. "Dadaists, futurists and impressionists forget that the task of Art is not to promote degeneracy but to fight degeneracy. Those who affect the primitive style are either swindlers or maniacs...
...their boys and girls, tense, neurotic, esthetically inclined individuals whose emotional boiling points were low, were constantly being shaken by brief but elemental passions which were all out of proportion to any apparent cause. In moments of peace and release they seemed to wander over the farmlands in a daze of sensuous awareness, savoring barnyard scenes and country beauties like city people spending their first vacation out of town...
...troop of German Catholic youths were still in a holy daze from their visit to Pope Pius XI in Rome, as they came down out of the Alps on their way back into Nazi Germany. Harsh awakening came at the border where waited Nazi border police. No Nazi is permitted to wear a Nazi uniform outside of Germany, but these pious Nazi youths had worn, while genuflecting before Pope Pius, the livery of Adolf Hitler-thus committing a peculiar sort of Nazi lèse-majesté. At the border the returning youths were set upon, their uniforms roughly seized...