Word: speechlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rehearsal was far from grumpless; if it had been, it wouldn't have been a Toscanini rehearsal or resulted in a Toscanini performance. Once, when a singer yelped on an entrance, the tireless little tyrant roared in his hoarse, drama-ridden voice: "No! NO!" then stood speechless, slapping his leg with his baton, trying to suppress what he calls his "bad character." Once, dripping-wet in his black alpaca rehearsal coat, the maestro stopped the brassy triumphal march: "No! Not for the dead. For the living, for the living...
...speechless with shock but finding the right...
...around for a few minutes to catch his senses and his breath, and then they took him to the stands where his parents and two brothers were waiting for him. He was speechless at first, and his mother was in tears. After a painful silence, he managed to speak. "I've never worked longer or harder," he mumbled. "I'm hungry. I had steak for breakfast, but that seems days...
Other news of graduations last week: ¶ At New York University, imminent rain caused a speechless outdoor commencement. Said Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase: "I had prepared an eloquent address. There is thunder in the distance. It will be printed and mailed to you." ¶ At the first commencement of Vermont's new Marlboro College (TIME, Sept. 8), there were four commencement speakers and only one graduate. ¶ At Missouri's Rockhurst College (Kansas City), a bus driver and a union business agent received the first U.S. bachelor's degrees in labor relations...
Feet First. Rebecca had not been in London long before she sat at the feet (a vantage point of signal value) of practically everybody worth observing. Her great friend, Novelist G. B. Stern, with whom Rebecca shared meager quarters in those pioneer days, would be struck speechless by the arrival of successive literary lions with whom Miss West would chat, easily and informally, about the private lives and feuds of the legendary characters then dominating the British literary scene...