Word: spellbound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shouldered aside by a burly, blatant, sideshow barker from the city, whose ambition is not to sit in the chair himself but to call the crowd, direct the act and lead the ballyhoo. Mr. Lowden's enemy of old, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, has spellbound the bystanders and gained mastery of Illinois, and perhaps a lot more Lowden territory, by an opportunism from which gentlemanliness is omitted with a frank grin. Nor is the Thompson grin as foolish as it looks...
Came the army to Windsor, but King George was not in his castle, neither was Queen Mary. But the stately royal pile, begun by William the Conqueror, held them spellbound as they paused to gaze at it. And even after the order to march had been given necks were craned to take just one last look...
...Spellbound. Imagination, seed of woe, flowers into tragedy or pathos, according to the ground it falls on. In Spellbound, it has fallen on a London shopgirl. A pathetic play is the result. Yet so artfully is this pathos accented by Actress Pauline Lord, whose specialty has long been the anguish of the inarticulate, that the play's weakness is concealed. There are moments in Spellbound when Miss Lord crosses the high road of true tragedy and makes Ethel Underwood at least a half-sister to all whose dreams have led them lost...
Dismissal of a huge extravaganza such as that which has held Chicago and, by radio and press, the entire nation spellbound, breathless and even unconscious, on the varying grounds that it was vulgar brutality, misdirected energy, or vapid inanity is begging the question in a conventional and entirely superficial fashion. The annual battle of the century may have been all of those things and many more, but since its power was so tremendous it can scarcely be passed off as just one of those things. The columns devoted to the private life, if they may be said to possess...
...Spellbound, on special matinees, expounds the curse of cursing drink. It holds up the horrible example of a mother so intent upon defeating Demon Rum that she flushes her two little sons with anti-whiskey solutions. The result: one becomes a mute, the other a paralytic. Later in life, a thunderstorm suddenly starts up during the third act to provide atmosphere while the mute is engaged in raping a girl. This reprehensible sight so enrages the paralytic (20 years bedridden) that he suddenly renews his synaptic connections, skips out of bed, does successful battle for the Right. The play...