Word: frightfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bucks County Playhouse really waited for was to hear mute Harpo speak and play himself (Banjo). In the third act they were rewarded by the bandersnatch entrance of Harpo, minus his red fright-wig but plus a violent shirt with enormous purple and red flowers. Wildly ogling the indulgent audience, he plucked all the Harpo strings, blew bubble gum, enjoyed himself no end. Last time he had spoken out loud on the stage was 25 years ago in a Texas tank town. The long silence had not improved his manners. Said he, stealing a line from the play...
...Teachers said they had cured pupils of poor reading, incoherent writing, stage fright, stuttering...
...Despite bombings, sirens and frequent routings out of bed, the 450 inmates of the Lingfield Epileptic Colony at Lingfield, Surrey have remained "unperturbed." Many doctors think that epilepsy is brought on by fright, worry, or terrific shock. But Dr. Joseph Tylor Fox, head of the Lingfield colony, reported: "There was no general increase of [epileptic] attacks on days or nights of air activity, nor has any evidence been found of increased fits in individuals." This observation tends to confirm the theory that fits are caused by damage to the brain, not by psychological shock...
...Fright. In Pittsburgh, Saloonkeeper Carlo Colombo, 45, looked up from his bar, was frightened to death by a man who entered wearing a mask of Adolf Hitler...
...lisande. But the director of the Paris Opéra Comique had other ideas: he chose a young singer from the U. S., Mary Garden. When Maeterlinck heard the news, he set off, cane in hand, to give Debussy a thrashing. He gave the composer no more than a fright, but wrote to Le Figaro wishing Pelléas et Meélisande "immediate and emphatic failure." It turned out to be a success, and Maeterlinck stayed away from it. In 1920, persuaded to attend a Mary Garden performance in Manhattan, he walked out in the second...