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...chicken house one day last week, Roger took up a shotgun and blasted the beast. Before the echoes died away, there was a clatter of hoofs, a clamor of hounds, and up rode the local hunt. The hunters stared aghast at Roger's atrocity. They were speechless. Not so Roger's employer...
...tribulations of Foreign Correspondent Ernie Hill in the education of Jonathan may leave him "strictly speechless," but, for my money, not speechless enough ... If little school" Johnny can was hardly tardy 32 be times blamed in for one that year, fact the ... If six wallops with a birch cane were what Jonathan needed (as it turned out, big surprise), let Papa Hill know that birch canes are for sale in New York as well as in Lon don, and it is his legal duty to apply the cane. Is it an indictment of the American public school system that...
Through the dinner the Smith kids were speechless. Nannette, 11, had to stuff a napkin in her mouth to keep from giggling. Young Kent, 5, spilled his cider on the damask tablecloth, and Cheryl had a change of heart. "I wasn't going to eat," she said, "but I got hungry." After dinner King Paul made a quick tour of the farm with Smith. Then, with a home-cured ham tucked under his arm, the King waved goodbye and drove back to Chicago to tell the Queen all about...
...change," said he, "leaves me strictly speechless. In the eighth grade last year at the American School in Tokyo, he was tardy 37 times, and the year before in New York, 32 times . . . I once went to his school in New York. When I put my head in the door, someone fired a book at me. All the kids were standing up screaming. The teacher was shouting and banging the desk...
...Balbhan (The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife), a one-act farce adapted from Rabelais by Librettist Tomás Mac Anna. In a surrealistic setting showing both the inside and outside of a peasant's cottage, the hero hires a doctor to cure his speechless wife. The doctor does this by telling her of her husband's carryings-on with other women. When she finally speaks, she does it so abusively that the hero asks to be made deaf, and the curtain falls as he peacefully sings that deafness is the cure for all troubles...