Word: speechless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speechless awe with which Crimson fans watched their team slash the paws, face, and body of the Tiger that deserves recognition. It is not the spontaneous victory march after the game, in which every true Harvard man joined, overjoyed that he had seen a defeat that was a defeat of a major foe. Nor the individual playing of certain members of the backfield and line. All these considering the distressful circumstances which have piled high around Cambridge football in the past four years, were to be expected...
This query left Miss Goldman speechless but when related to U. A. W. Vice President Edward Hall, that gruff labor-man laughed: "Why didn't you tell her we manufacture trouble...
...Races, which took a year to make, is happily distinguished from previous Marx pictures in that it contains more of them. A wild, complex, totally implausible fable about a run-down sanatorium, its impudent porter (Chico), an imported horse-doctorphysician (Groucho) and the steeplechase in which a speechless jockey (Harpo) gets the money to pay off the sanatorium's debts through his brilliant ride on a horse who hates the gambler who is trying to buy the sanatorium for use as a casino-it all adds up to nothing at all except superlative entertainment. A gag sequence omitted...
...extend its informal greetings to all guests and delegates to the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Conference on "The Role of Government in the National Economy." It has so far neglected to comment on those who are responsible for the Conference's progress from a vision to an actuality, from a speechless vacuum to a forum of discussion...
President Roosevelt's startling message to Congress, asking for power to name six additional Justices of the United States Supreme Court, left Harvard's government experts apparently speechless yesterday...