Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again & again to the enigmatic figure of Lenin, writes of him with an historian's objectivity rather than with a newshawk's interest in a spectacular figure. He insists on Lenin's cold colorlessness, even while relating how Lenin plotted to disguise himself as a deaf-&-dumb Swede in order to return to Russia; how he escaped arrest by hiding successively in a loft, a hut in a hayfield, a railway locomotive; how still in hiding, he began a theoretical work on the State just as the revolution approached its climax...
Look down and are dumb...
...advantages of sections designed more in accordance with intellectual differences. The A-men are organized into mature conference groups in which they can do advanced work and engage in informal and profitable discussion with their instructors and fellow students. The E-men are concentrated in the so-called "dumb bunny" sections where they deal with fundamentals and learn the truth about history in as painless a way as possible. Between the two outposts, the C-men go on at their accustomed pace, neither hindered by their inferiors nor painfully stepped-up by the comparatively breakneck speed...
...long succession of pupils whatever native gifts they had for writing in the English language and of appreciating what has been written in English. That is his magic. The conviction that but for their luck in having known him, they would be more deaf and more dumb than they are, that in truth he has helped them to live, is the reason why he is the object of a cult in which there is such fervor, such affection and such gratitude...
...Gosh, I'm dumb!'' wailed Prisoner Roiderer, his face ashen, eyes bulging and lips aquiver as he hysterically clasped, flopped and wrung his hands. "I am a hare's foot-a scared rabbit-but I am a good German. I am no spy! When I was going from Munich for a little holiday in Switzerland an official called me 'You coward!' and then he said. 'Confess-or we will make you confess...