Word: spellbound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectators, as spellbound as a gallery at Lord's, greatest disappointment were the Crawley Busmen from the nearby London Transport Garage, pretournament favorites because of their strong fingers (from punching tickets, they say). Overcome by nervousness, they were finally nosed out by the Old Comrades, another Sussex six, 26-to-23. To the Old Comrades went a suckling pig, to the strong-fingered Crawley Busmen a barrel of beer...
Author Howe is at his best, however, in recapturing the charm and wit which held the Saturday Club and Boston dinner tables spellbound, prompting Charles Kingsley to stammer on his U. S. visit: "He is an insp-sp-sp-ired...
Holding his listeners spellbound, Washburn spent the greater part of his hour and three quarters relating the story of last summer's ascent of two hitherto unclimbed peaks, Mount Saint Agnes and Mount Sanford. Still photographs, movies, and colored slides accompanied the talk and added much clarity to his vigorous explanations...
Before that happened, Senator Barkley's only claim to national fame was as the keynoter of the 1932 and 1936 Democratic conventions. Before 1932 he was just a member of the Democratic minority in the Senate who had spellbound his colleagues on Drought in 1930. As a member of the House he had helped foster the Prohibition Amendment and the Volstead Act. He had been a paid speaker for the Anti-Saloon League, but in 1928, when drink returned to popularity, he stumped for Al Smith, later helped write the 21st (Repeal) Amendment. Now he even takes a toddy...
Because it requires so many performers, the Requiem is seldom performed. But last week a large audience flocked to Rochester's Eastman Theatre and listened spellbound while an enormous aggregation of players and singers thundered it out under the baton of Conductor Herman H. Genhart. No one swooned. The performance of Composer Berlioz' barbaric, brooding score was acclaimed as one of the most important events, and certainly the loudest, in Rochester's musical history...