Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Burly, surly-mannered fellows slouched in the corridors of a high school in Cicero, Ill. last week. They rasped commands: "Get along now! No loitering!" They insulted girls, jostled students who infringed upon even the most trivial school regulation. Complained a student: "These dumb house dicks push us around like we're convicts at Joliet...
...have taken a perfect segment of life in their selection. There is Dan Packard, the unscrupulous business man, self-made, of course, who continually remains the audience that his bad manners are traceable to the Montana mining camp. There is his wife, a check-room girl, beautiful, cheap, pampered, dumb, who is the cynosure in the boudoir scene. Then the authors proceed to fill out the play with servant side. The villainous, sleek chauffeur, Ricci, the apex of the triangle completed by Dora, and Gustave, whose continental manners embroll the kitchen in a melee with the carving set, which ruins...
...Orleans, claiming a male deaf mute had slandered her in deaf & dumb language, a female deaf mute shot him through the arm with a .44 pistol...
Sirs: Your Oct. 10 issue carries an article under the heading National Affairs, in that article, repeats a few words of praise I said for Senator Jim Davis, those words for Davis were from the heart, and were as honest as the words of how dumb the Republican Organization is for allowing the Herbert Hoover, Andy Mellon and Dave Reed wing of the party for ruining it, of course why mention the running of the party, they are doing as good a job with the entire country...
...White. Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), "Pal" Moore, Ted ("Kid") Lewis, Jack Dempsey, Luis Angel Firpo. Little Trainer De Forest was the model for all trainers: capable of savage scorn, furious calm and a disarming mildness in handling fighters. Describing a knockout blow, he once said. "It just makes you dumb and useless and sort of discouraged. You don't feel...