Word: dumbness
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...Chattanooga a want ad summarized the local situation: "WANTED: Registered druggist-young or old, deaf or dumb. Must have license and walk without crutches. Apply Cloverleaf Drug Store...
Author White tells their remarkable tale with punch and tang. The Navy Department was interested enough to change one letter in the original title, making "expendible" "expendable." Possibly the Navy is also responsible for making Bulkeley describe certain military persons as "dumb dastards...
...overproduced chemists to such an extent that there were about a dozen Ph.D.s in organic chemistry on the Berlin police force. I recall with shame that a group at a national meeting of the American Chemical Society thought that was really funny and an indication of just how dumb the Germans were. You can wager that those chemists are no longer on the police force. Neither are they in the army...
Sally O'Neil heads the cast as the stage-struck Boston debutante, whose friends says: "She isn't really ignorant; just dumb." The really juicy part, though, is Gaylord Mason's. He's Norman, the guiding genius of the mad household of actors who will--and do--resort to anything to get the attention of a theatrical producer. He plays the part up to the hilt, with enough vigor and enthusiasm to keep the whole thing going by himself...
Melancthon Fowinkle returned from the Civil War wishing it had never ended. It had cost him his right arm. But it had given him, a baldish intellectual, years of equality with his dumb, knightly brother Fairfax, who had died in the Southern apogee of courage, under Pickett at Gettysburg. Dealing death, and living with it constantly, was the most heartening experience Melancthon had ever known...