Word: dumbness
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...Friend Irma (Paramount), as millions of radio fans know, is a dizzy, alluringly dumb blonde. Cy Howard, her CBS creator and co-author of the screenplay, has seen to it that in her first screen appearance, Irma (Marie Wilson) is just as her fans would have her. She keeps the butter in the oven, the egg beater under a sofa cushion; she short-circuits the plans of her boy friend (John Lund) and her roommate (Diana Lynn), and in general does everything in the least rational way possible. None of this is very funny and much of it is downright...
Professor Skinner gets his birds, or "organisms" as he calls them, from a local pigeon-breeding farm. He admits pigeons are "notoriously dumb creatures," but admires their steadiness of intellect, or lack of it. The farm gives him surplus white homing-pigeons. They are too easy prey for hawks, but make excellent material for the battle of the button...
Visiting in Chicago, pipe-puffing Guy George Gabrielson, new national chairman of the Republican Party, passed on to 140 Cook County party bosses a suggestion from General Dwight D. Eisenhower: "I hope the Republicans now will develop party principles so that even a person as dumb as I am will be able to tell the difference between the Republican and Democratic parties...
...American youngster with a fair left, a good right, a soft heart, and no grammar at all. An idea hit Fight Fan Fisher with the force of an uppercut. He rushed back to the Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader's office and dashed off the first strip about a dumb, good-natured pug named Joe Dumbelletski...
...very few men in the world today who understands what is wrong," he says in so many words. "Now listen, all you dumb yucks, while I explain...