Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mourning Becomes Electro, The Emperor Jones and a hundred other plays, without having been distracted from the quality of the plays themselves. Robert Edmond Jones, at 28, made a sensation with sets and costumes he designed for Granville Barker's pro duction of The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife. Later he became associated with Arthur Hopkins. Now, at 44, he calls his settings "not pictures, but images. . . ." But this solid knowledge of good theatre makes Jones's designs less effective on a gallery wall than on a stage. At one time Decorator Jones had a Christlike beard...
...When the blind lead the blind, both fall into the ditch and when the blind lead the dumb the same catastrophe occurs...
Last week at Albany, Governor Roosevelt continued blissfully deaf, dumb & blind about his candidacy. When his friends urged him to get openly into the fight and switch to national issues, he declared publicly: "I'm too busy right here as Governor to give any thought to anything else. This job is getting bigger all the time." However he did pause long enough to assure itinerant United Pressman Raymond Clapper that business would have nothing to fear from Democratic rule at the White House...
...command to elect their Speaker. George V's command was given by proxy in the neighboring House of Lords. Until the Speaker is elected, the Commons cannot sit as the House (with the Mace on the table) but only in committee (with the Mace under the table). In symbolic dumb show Clerk of the House Sir Horace Christian Dawkins began the time-honored mummery by taking his stand (not seat) in front of the empty Speaker's chair. The Clerk asked nomination of a Speaker by pointing silently to a Conservative on a Government bench, Sir George Courthorpe...
...dried seemed the probable result last week that Britons who hoped for a Labor victory were forced to paint a lurid picture: they saw the vast grey host of the unemployed, the discontented and Depression-ridden rising in a tidal wave of dumb resentment, sweeping "Uncle Arthur" Henderson on to glorious Victory and distasteful Bolshevism...