Word: speechlessness
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...little frogs of Hollywood have long been dissatisfied with the rule of their King Log, Will H. Hays. He was called "The Speechless Spokesman" be cause, as the industry's Washington representative, he often seemed to be in effectual. His Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. (The Hays Office) also disliked him because he administered the motion picture code with prim inflexibility. So last week Czar Hays finally abdicated...
...idiot brightness, but it was raining"-and out of the miasma loomed "dejected palm trees, a few worn mud buildings, aged water buffaloes . . . and a cluster of sickly natives, including several girls with rings in their noses who would never get a screen test." The G.I.s, stared in speechless horror- until "a colored soldier won immortality ... by throwing back his head and crying, in a long, high wail, 'Iran! Land of romance...
Frank Sinatra, in Rome with a U.S.O. troupe, had an audience with Pope Pius XII and reported, wide-eyed, that the Pontiff had asked if he was a tenor or baritone. Said The Voice: "I was amazed the Pope had heard of me. I was speechless. I am enthralled by all the grandeur. I am thrilled...
...only dependable man in the Utopia was Grandfather Bucklin, a rangy 88-year-old who strode the porch in a bathrobe and forbade the children to utter a word. Right after Grandfather Bucklin's funeral, the hitherto-speechless Aleck burst into a torrent of verbiage that left his mother speechless with admiration. It is no wonder, says Biographer Adams, that Woollcott grew into "a devoted crusader for free speech and independent thought...
Neck & neck, but strictly speechless, the cousins hunted boars in Hungary, wolves in Russia, stags in Scotland, foxes in England. Soon all the fox hunters and debutantes in Europe and America were divided-half for New Jersey's Bolinvar, half for Virginia...