Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Jacqueline Logan, saccharine cinemactress; from one Robert Gillespie; in Los Angeles. She charged that he kicked her and called her dumb...
...nephew was going to marry the girl, the absurd female cinema censor was going to marry a Jewish cinemaker, the old bachelor was going to marry a woman whose age approached his own. When she had accepted his proposal with these words: "God made women beautiful and dumb; beautiful so you would love us and dumb so we could love you," the man smoothed his "tweeds" and went home. His evening had been well spent...
...best possible return from it. The delegation should really be a group of errand boys who have been delegated to vote a certain way by the people of the state, and who will do it. If you were to take a poll of a deaf and dumb society you would find out their opinions more easily than you would learn those of a state delegation to a national convention. It was Joseph who had the coat of many colors, wasn't it? Well, the Massachusetts delegations to the coming convention will be much more vari-colored than Joseph's coat...
...Denver, Colo., last week, the county court overruled all objections to the will of the late Fred H. Forrester, who had left his $110,000 fortune for the permanent care of his collie, Shep, for the welfare of all homeless or abused dumb animals in Colorado, and for the construction of drinking fountains for dogs and horses in Denver streets. Dog Shep had refused to eat for a week after Mr. Forrester's death...
...State House yesterday, and Commander Breck was the chief speaker in a heated argument. Backing up his statement more definitely, he told the CRIMSON reporter that after studying the subject carefully for three years, and collecting data from every source, he could now announce that approximately 100,000,000 dumb animals were being slaughtered in agony every year...