Word: dumbness
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...Detroit last week some 100 worshipers and two priests sang and prayed as silently as a Quaker meeting. They were participating in a mission for the deaf and dumb in St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church. Services were carried on in sign language by Fathers William Bernard Heitker and Raymond Charles Kalter...
...just a dumb guy who gets himself wounded. But I just heard the radio say that correspondents report that the Italians lit up the beach [at Salerno] for us and we stormed ashore under cover of a heavy bombardment against the Germans, and everything looked like Coney Island...
...jester tops the gag man by being both a richly eccentric character and a vividly expressive type-Chaplin is The Little Man, Durante The Wild Man, Ed Wynn The Perfect Fool. Hope has no eccentric character; but by giving his gags dramatic value he made himself a type-the dumb wise guy, the quaking braggart, the lavish tightwad. But this type somehow dissolves into a far broader and more significant one-thanks to his vibrant averageness, Hope is any healthy, cocky, capering American. He is the guy who livens up the summer hotel, makes things hum at the corset salesmen...
...Washington"; 5) "Wheeler is a good fellow, but he can't stand up to Nye"; 6) "Taft is coming along, but he is still old-fashioned"; 7) "Surrounded by a circle of advisers of the nationalist type, Lindbergh would make an excellent nominal leader"; 8) Colonel McCormick-"Dumb. No brains...
...year after General Marshall had become Chief of Staff, Terry Allen received his first star. Over the head of many a colonel who had rated him a rather dumb and charming rake, he was jumped from lieutenant colonel to temporary brigadier general...