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...Ronan declared the city's ordinance of restriction to be unconstitutional. With the return of the original ten dollar fine to test case Sidney Wolbarst--proprietor of the Turnpike Bowaldrome--all became quiet on the pinball front for the first time since March 1945. Even Mighty Mickey is speechless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Pinball Lights Flash Once More As Mickey Sullivan Gnashes Teeth | 3/12/1946 | See Source »

Sheer Luck. In Cambridge, Mass., Salesgirl Mary Flaherty politely said there were no nylons, stood speechless when a customer gave her a pair "because of the polite way you always turned me down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 25, 1946 | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

Cathie (Deborah Kerr) represents wifely charm in a mousey woolen bathrobe, a muffler around her neck, sleep in her eyes, a cold in her nose. In an early-morning coma, Robert (Robert Donat) moves speechless and heavy-lidded about the drab little flat. First, the clean collar, the neat cravat. Then a cup of tea, a glance at the clock, a peek at the barometer, and down the stairs and off to his job as a bookkeeper, a symbol of hopeless, conventional timidity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 18, 1946 | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...Reno Mrs. Malcolmson cried, "I'm speechless!" This was an exaggeration. "Pappy knows darn well what happened to his money. I spent a lot of my own taking care of his kids. And was kneeling in church with me to pray for the success of our marriage a 'by-mail' romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEVADA: Apple Duck's Travail | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...lovers get away with the murder for a while-but cannot get away from themselves. Guilt and remorse gnaw at their marriage until the old mother (Dame May Whitty) becomes aware of their crime. Paralyzed by the shock, mother sits speechless but blazing-eyed in a wheelchair, biding her time. It comes at last, and with it a spurt of good theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Oct. 22, 1945 | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

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