Word: speechlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midst of a favorite aria when out upon the stage from her box climbed a young person later identified as one Sylvia Peres of Italy. Apparently overcome by an exhibitionist impulse, she threw herself into a vigorous and not inept display of fancy dance steps. Tenor Franz stood speechless. The orchestra stopped, gaping. Mlle. Peres danced on with abandon, coming to a climax with one heel on Tenor Franz's shoulder. The police, unable to arrest her, lectured her severely...
...road roller, skyscrapers, an airplane in flight. He licked his first ice cream cone, drank his first bottle of ginger ale. His only question: "Aren't there any more horses?" So violently did new sights and sounds impinge upon his prison-warped senses that he was left almost speechless...
...Frank Tinney, famed comedian, suffered a complete nervous breakdown. Speechless, gibbering, he seemed unlikely to recover. Last week he was singing and joking nightly at La Victorie night club, Atlantic City, N. J. Credit for the Tinney progress is due to Eddie Cassaday, oldtime minstrel and Tinney crony, and Professor Edwin Burket Twitmyer, head of the psychology department of the University of Pennsylvania. Said Dr. Twitmyer: "When he first came to me Tinney couldn't walk on a wide board. A ladder was impossible. I taught him to walk, stepping between the rungs. Now he can climb a ladder...
...rags before two bulls. That was exactly what he did by so much as mentioning the "corridor" to France (friend of Poland) or alluding to "colo-nies" in the presence of Britain (which holds East Africa as a mandate). Not only did Dr. Schacht render the Allied delegates speechless with indignation, but he antagonized the U. S. representatives, who pride themselves on being "business-men" and who grew quite heated in assuring correspondents that they would not- no never!-be dragged into a "political" wrangle. Germany's representative had, moreover, displayed the God-given ungraciousness for which...
...peaceful Sunbury Court at Sunbury on the Thames, England, 63 uniformed officers of the Salvation Army High Council squatted in the meeting-room, listening with silent approval-a few with speechless scorn-to the impassioned oratory of the vice president of the Council, Lieutenant Commissioner William Haines. His glumly ascetic countenance became vitalized as he denounced one-man control of the Salvation Army, justifying his part and that of his colleagues in deposing Gen. Bramwell Booth, which they had done but two days before this meeting of the Council (TIME...