Word: daze
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...love affair with a coal-country girl that Author Boden sketches with extraordinary tenderness. But shades of the prison-house begin to close. First there are accidents, then an explosion in the mine. Danny helps to haul the cooked bodies out. Horrified, he wanders about the streets in a daze, realizing what a life it is to which, for hunger's sake, he is doomed. Above his boy's head, above the sooty fog, shine out the stars; but these he cannot eat, and barely...
...stenographer to the town's most eligible young man she felt her foot was on the ladder. It was. Before Bill knew what was happening to him Lillian had him in a shrewdly compromising mess, his adored young wife had divorced him, and in a daze he had married Lillian. In the uneven battle that followed between Lillian and local society both sides scored some notable victories; at times, in spite of everything, your sympathies are with the outrageous redhead. When Lillian saw she was making no headway, like a good general she changed her tactics, wheedled...
...Presidency was a delightful daze and doze to Calvin Coolidge...
...guilty soldier was soon seized. He confessed in a daze of fear, kept murmuring, "I cannot understand how El Gallo [The Rooster] escaped." To persons more familiar with the presidential plumbing, explanation was easy. In providing a sumptuous bath for His Excellency's son-in-law, the plumbers had switched over the President's former ventilation pipe to ventilate the Obregons...
...Fickert coldly watched his onetime prime witness across the chamber. Justice Preston asked MacDonald: "Do you still feel in Fickert's clutches?" Replied MacDonald pitifully: "I do. I'm in a daze right...