Word: speechlessness
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...fall of 1939 a young man with a moonish, almost childish face flew his single-engined Beechcraft airplane from New York to Boston, where he huddled with savants at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His incisive understanding of their experiments with a new radio tube left them speechless, unable to believe that he had quit school when he was 13. That night he flew back to New York, repaired immediately to the Stork Club with an eyesome blonde. Near his table sat Walter Winchell. The moony young man's eyes bulged with appeal to Winchell for a word...
...that Junior's new suit "won't cost a cent because I exchanged it for that china dog I charged at the store." "And," with an innocent little smile, "they can't charge you for the dog, because we don't have it." This irrefutably naive logic leaves father speechless and the audience howling...
...bifurcated volcano in behalf of the principles of my party." But meatily between the thick-hunked verbiage were sandwiched slices of wit and wisdom. He was one man who dared to tackle rough-&-tumble Huey Long in debate on the Senate floor. He left the Kingfish lacerated, pop-mouthed, speechless...
...abundance from Joyce's own letters, unpublished verses and notebooks. Sample facts: His middle names are Augustine Aloysius; he used to sign himself Jas. A. Joyce. During his first visit to Paris, when he was 20, he often had no food for 40 hours at a stretch, was speechless with toothache when he did eat. At around 19, under the influence of Ibsen, he wrote a five-act play-lost-which he dedicated to his own soul. (His father, reading that in bed one night, bawled "Holy Paul!") Passing the Arc de Triomphe, Valery Larbaud asked him how long...
...Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States," said the caller slowly, "appear of my own volition before this Committee of the Senate to say that I, of my own knowledge, know that it is untrue that any of my family hold treasonable communication with the enemy." He went away. Speechless, the Committee adjourned...