Word: dumbness
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...married a beautiful but dumb member of one of Germany's best cartel families-pure bourgeois and pure Prussian. Contact with the average middle-class German mind was such a shock that I was practically forced to make a study of history and of international relations. At that time the average German people suffered from a fanatical inferiority complex owing to the fact that, historically, they came on the scene too late to grab choice colonies...
...Manhattan garment mine, she heads for Central Park to have a daydream of grandeur. Wistfully she gazes at a big, empty billboard on Columbus Circle, imagining how her name would look there in 12-ft. letters: GLADYS GLOVER. What happens next is a hilarious example of dumb-blonde logic. Since her name would look wonderful on the sign, and since she has $1,000 in the bank, why not rent the sign and put her name on it? She does-and nothing happens. Then everything begins to happen at once. A dashing young soap millionaire (Peter Lawford) dashes after...
...essentially the same poor man's Pygmalion that won her an Oscar two years ago for the screen version of her 1946 Broadway hit, Born Yesterday. Practice has made her almost perfect in the part. She seems an incarnation of the big-city blonde who is so dumb that she doesn't even know she's beautiful...
...Yale graduate (1915) who has seen most of the Y-P and Y-H games I saw an occurrence yesterday at the game in the Yale Bowl which makes me wonder whether I am dumb or just getting old. It occurred possibly fifteen minutes before the game began and had to do with a young Harvard student who apparently was connected with the Harvard football team in an official capacity. My wife and I were sitting in the general admission seats when down the field came the young Harvard student. At each five yard stripe he would reach down, pluck...
Returned in the prisoner exchange at Freedom Village, Bill Dean, white-haired and worn, found the praise heaped upon him hard to take. "I'm no hero," he told newsmen. "Anybody who's dumb enough to get captured doesn't deserve to be a hero." On another occasion, he said: "I expected to be court-martialed." In his home town, Carlyle, III., he insisted that "the reports of my heroism have been greatly exaggerated." He was reluctant to wear his Medal of Honor, won for gallantry in the battle of Taejon. "I don't deserve...