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Treasure Chest. In Yonkers, N.Y., when police asked him where he had hidden the jewelry he stole, Clayton Cuff, 20, was speechless, gasped for breath, coughed up a $425 diamond ring...
...running for the Republican nomination after the Wisconsin primary in 1944. Oregon voters applied the same deathblow to Harold Stassen in 1948. These men might have been the real choice of the nation's Republicans, but Wisconsin and Oregon dissented, and the rest of the nation was electorally speechless. It may be that the country folk of New Hampshire will do likewise to Dwight Eisenhower...
Next morning, when Ridgway's military secretary Chief Warrant Officer William McCleary arrived and saw the pilfered box, he was speechless for 30 seconds. Then Mr. McCleary reported to Matt Ridgway, and the sparks began to fly. Ridgway called the Honor Guard's captain on the carpet, ordered him to 1) search out the culprits, 2) get rid of them. Faced with the prospect of discipline for the whole company unless they confessed, Smith, King and Branch confessed...
...disillusion set in as soon as Lana saw herself in her first movie, They Won't Forget. She was cast as a sweatered Southern belle who drifted through one speechless scene. "A Thing," Lana recalls, "walked slowly down the street, then away. She wore a tight sweater and her breasts bounced as she walked ... a tight skirt and her buttocks bounced . . . She moved sinuously, undulating fore and aft . . . She was the motive for the entire picture . . . the girl who got raped...
...Speechless. In Providence, the Journal printed in its entirety the shortest communication its Letters to the Editor column had ever received: "Editor: I am so damn mad I forgot what I was going to say. Jim Payne...