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...witness for Colonel Felder, came into the court with William J. Burns, once chief of sleuths of the Department of Justice. Mr. Daugherty volunteered on the stand that "considering the period we were going through when there was this upheaval in Washington, and on one side certain people were spellbound and on the other side spellbound, it is time that the truth about some things should be told." But the Court did not encourage him to make a general expos?...
Said William James: "I went in curiosity for a day. I stayed for a week, held spellbound by the charm and ease of everything, by the middle-class paradise, without a sin, without a victim, without a blot, without a tear. . . . You have culture, you have kindness, you have cheapness, you have equality...
...glorious future which the Committee has opened up before the nation is breath taking in its expanse. Gazing spellbound down the long aisles of light we seem to see invitations to the Postmasters' Ball written in Milionian sonnets, advertisements made worthy of a new Golden Treasury, and Waldorf menus gotten up in heroic couplets. Then and only then can we say with Dr. Pangloss that "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds...
...primarily a man of living affairs, and his talent for bringing out the human essence involved in complex situations is incomparable. For vivacity, naturalness, and "go," he seems to me the most gifted lecturer we have had here in many a long year, and his audience listens as if spellbound...
...Spellbound by her dark, liquid eyes...