Word: dumbness
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...arrived at the top, and started to push in. Passing the man in the cage he stopped; it reminded him of coming out again, with the book. What book? Why get it? You don't need it, he realized. You don't need any books at all. Vag, you dumb bastard, after the orals there's nothing more, you're done, you don't need the book at all. He looked long and very sadly at the man in the cage and started diagonally--it was the only way--down the stairs...
...about the only pure beings to be found in a world of reeking garbage." There was also frustrated Author Leo Stein, whose loathing of his prolific sister, Gertrude, was a feature of the boulevards. "My God, Sam!" Leo would groan to Author Putnam, "You have no idea how dumb she is! Why, when we were in school, I used to have to do all her homework...
...Dumb Crambo. Wilhelmina of The Netherlands once told her doll: "If you're not good, I'll turn you into a princess and then you'll have no one to play with." In Princess Elizabeth's life there was never any such grim circumscription. At the Duke's house in Piccadilly there were always a host of little cousins, lords and honorables for playmates. Devoted to horses (she pretended her legs were a team and called them Flycatcher and Harmony), she had her own pony at four. Her backyards were the family's vast...
Every August there was a visit to her maternal grandmother, the Countess of Strathmore, where Elizabeth and Margaret could romp in the ancient corridors of Macbeth's Castle Glamis. There were English Christmases at Sandringham, where the whole family gathered to sing carols, play charades, Dumb Crambo, Animal Grab and Consequences, and dance the Sir Roger de Coverley. And always & everywhere there were friendly relatives, dogs and horses...
...dumb nor so gruff as he acts, Slim Lynch, like many an oldtime newsman, finds it amusing to pretend he is semiliterate. Says he: "People always embarrass me when they talk about style. I don't know how to start a story or end it. I just put down simple words and I write about simple things. I use my feet and get around and talk to a lot of people...