Word: dumbness
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...Better dumb than dead. --Southie bars, hotbeds of discontent...
...deep, his creator Raymond Chandler might say, as a spotted geister in a Chicago overcoat sent back-stroking in the blue Pacific. He was a hardened private dick, a real pro, and could trade quips and insults with any manner of wise-cracking low life. When a dumb and slutty millionaire's daughter tries to lead him on in The Big Sleep, cooing "you're cute," the unarousable Marlowe answers back, "What you see is nothing. I got a belly dancer on my right thigh." A real joker...
...standard joke is that good tennis players should be dumb in order to put up with having to hit ball after ball over long periods of time," Fish continues. "That's not true--it's just that the smart tennis player has to learn how to control himself...
...every box score and record book, he is listed as Dummy Hoy, a perpetual recognition of his lifelong handicap. He was born deaf and dumb on May 23, 1862 in Houckstown, Ohio and broke into the big leagues in 1888 when he joined the Washington club in the National League...
...next song, Bob Dylan's "Sign Language," attracts about as much attention as a deaf-and-dumb hawker. You feel you ought to pay some attention but it quickly fades from your memory...