Word: dumbness
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...state they call me the big, dumb Swede!" quipped lumbering Ed Johnson. His colleagues in the Senate were not much surprised to hear this; they had known Colorado's Big Ed for nine years. Nevertheless, they suffered him to delay passage of the $3.75 billion British loan for two hours while he groped around in parliamentary irrelevancies...
...never see a deer get burned in a forest fire," commented Frank (Bring 'Em Back Alive) Buck, who thinks the horse is pretty dumb anyhow. He rates the intellectuals of animaldom as 1) elephants, 2) anthropoid apes, 3) dogs...
Born Yesterday. Amusing yarn about a big-shot racketeer who decides to have his dumb blonde educated and picks too good a teacher (TIME...
...continue to behave this way, we shall have another war on our hands, just as sure as God made little apples. As a matter of fact, very few of us want to be gluttons; we are just dumb, and take our plenty for granted. So how about a little enlightenment, before it is too late...
Britannia's Progress. Said Hogarth: "My picture is my stage, and men and women my players, who, by means of certain actions and gestures, are to exhibit a dumb show." His two greatest "dumb shows," Harlot's Progress and Rake's Progress, sold like fish & chips but, in an age when only portraits or "historical" paintings in the grand manner were considered Art, the connoisseurs ignored them. And because the characters were real enough to recognize, no one thought of comparing either series of engravings with Bunyan's great book...