Word: spellbound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presence of women he would often lose his simple forthright manner and turn himself into a pompous and mouthy sentimentalist-or else remain spellbound and silent...
...magician of old Spain, and of a romantic worldling who came to the magician's wood to learn the making of gold for his sister's dowry; of how this lad, one Ramon Alonzo, did not rest until he had rummaged through the magician's spellbound shadow-box and found that which ends the story as all fairy tales should end. There is a certain philosophy of shadows woven through the pages, but the book is mostly music...
...rustic tables in the woods; others arrived in evening frocks and white flannels, from dinner parties at Lake Forest or Winnetka. Two thousand spectators sat under a high wooden canopy. (It keeps the rain out and keeps the music within.) Many others sat on the grassy slopes counting stars, spellbound, one night last week, by strains of Puccini...
Stamped, cheered and sat spellbound while Premier Briand delivered one of the most moving speeches of his career, urging ratification for the Locarno Treaties. His words...
Robert Edmond Jones, who bows only to Norman-Bel Geddes as a native creator of stage pictures, did the settings. There were many of them and they were of surpassing beauty. There were many moments in the play when the audience sat spellbound by the magnificence of the writing. The acting of Walter Huston in the principal role was admirable...