Word: speechless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States," said the caller slowly, "appear of my own volition before this Committee of the Senate to say that I, of my own knowledge, know that it is untrue that any of my family hold treasonable communication with the enemy." He went away. Speechless, the Committee adjourned...
Officially the Wilhelmstrasse was not only bitterly disappointed but speechless. Growled an unofficial spokesman: "God help the Anatolian peasants. There are no trees there for them to hide behind when the bombers come. There were trees in Poland...
...treatment of brain ills is a "bread-&-butter science." Deeply concerned with detours of nerve paths and battles of brain cells, he knows that a long chain of simple injections, or the sharp bite of a surgeon's knife into grey brain flesh may miraculously humanize a speechless paralytic, a savage child, a cancer victim crazy with pain...
That afternoon Their Majesties went to the Plains of Abraham, there heard 50,000 school children sing O Canada and God Save the King in French. That night there was a speechless dinner at the Château, at which the King dawdled over snowbird breasts on toast and trout, while the Queen, who is apparently dieting, ate almost nothing, fussed with her gloves until at dinner's end the King...
...handsome children. But Ivy Low Litvinoff, the Soviets' No. 1 hostess, conducted the only Moscow salon and translated novels and plays in her spare time. Fun-loving, witty, bohemian, she once engaged Novelist Theodore Dreiser in a conversation on his specialty, sexual theory, and left him blushing and speechless. Her most famous parties were in the purple splendor...