Word: dazingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tomorrow the World, Ed Gardner came to her dressing room and asked for a divorce. Says her friend, Bill McCaffrey: "This thing came from left field and it floored her. Gardner had another dame." Shirley kept on giving excellent performances, but for months she wandered in a backstage daze. To quiet her nerves, the stage manager sent her to a chiropractor who dabbled in amateur psychoanalysis. Each day, Shirley would get into a one-piece bathing suit, lie on his operating table, and talk. She explains: "His idea was that he could tell a lot about your mental tensions...
...outdoor hymn-sing, which he always led, pounding the old upright piano and rolling out the words in a stentorian baritone. In 1910 in Boston, after hearing Charles Evans Hughes denounce political corruption, Tobey was so impressed that he followed Hughes's carriage around the city in a daze. Then & there he decided to leave the chickens and go after the dragons of politics...
...front door, Pilot Floyd could watch his son's progress. One day in 1949 he watched the boy die; the youth's plane came down for a landing and crashed directly before his horrified father. For months after that the Floyds lived in a sort of daze. Finally Mrs. Floyd decided to adopt another child...
That might have been all, but then another fearsome piece of news came to occupation headquarters. Up in the mountains, three German soldiers had been found wandering in a bloody daze. They said that they, with 74 fellow prisoners, had been taken up one of the highest mountains in the vicinity to die. There the guerrillas stripped them, then pushed them off a crag. Only these three survived...
Three-Dimension, "the four-eyed revolution," had hit the land hard. Quite by accident, as it walked around in a daze of depression, Hollywood had tripped over a firing cord and shot off a telling reply to television. "Third-dementia," the newest entertainment craze, was luring crowds back to the movies in such numbers as Hollywood had not seen since the end of World War II. By the millions they came, to peer through an eye-straining haze of alcohol and iodine (the basic ingredients of the H Polarizer) at a simple optical illusion whose principle was known to Euclid...