Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blossom Seeley as "Roxie" of Chicago is the "sex appeal" of the production. Vividly blond, with a Tanguay voice, and costumes to match, she is the most contagious if not the stellar light of the edition. Miss Grace Brinkley in the lead is very beautiful and very dumb. As an ingenue Laura Lee she manages to hold down her end of the flighty show rather well. As for the males in the cast, no one but Dr. George Rockwell was enabled or deserved to occupy the spotlight unduly long. After much perserverance he managed to exhaust the resistance...
...Boston in it, finally parked beside the Statler and left his coat and hat in the car. When he returned he found his habiliments missing, but being unperturbed drove back to Cambridge. As he climbed out of the car he was arrested and charged with having stolen it. Dumb-founded over his mistake he pleaded innocense. The car he had rented had been stolen. When it was found it had gone 216 miles and the "U-Drive-It" people are now suing the Swiss scholar for a ride he did not enjoy. It hasn't been decided...
...whose neighbors are a deaf and dumb couple, owning their home and keeping it up a credit to the neighborhood, sending a flock of well-dressed children to the public school, doing their full duty to society as citizens, supporting the whole by a pay-check truly earned and regularly banked, may think of the couple as an exception. If he will multiply this couple by ten thousand, or more, he will have a more exact conception of the public status of the deaf and dumb...
...discussing public questions, the deaf and dumb not only do this intelligently, ,but they are capable even of discussing Senator Borah and his very evident deficiencies...
Editor Midwest News Magazine for the Deaf and popularly classified as "deaf and dumb...