Word: dumbness
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There are still good, "adequate" younger men, who try hard to serve the nation and justify the dignity of their titles. But too often a seat in Congress is only the reward for dumb loyalty to party machines; Congress has too many members with no conception of world events, men who are no more fit to lead than any ward heeler...
...this opus will convince anyone that its parts were dished out by either the neighborhood horsedoctor or Mickey Rooney. Paulette Goddard, whom we recall quite pleasantly as a sweater-girl from her native Bronx, is made-up into a Southern belle with absolutely ghastly effect. John Wayne plays the dumb-but-honest-lug-who-goes-wrong--a part admirably in-harmony with his facial expressions; and Ray Milland, completing the triangle, is thoroughly helpless with lines that no Booth could have carried...
...United States means business, and we won't be satisfied until we see American and Chinese troops in Tokyo together. There is a great deal of work to do and there are mistakes to be repaired. In the United States we were too dumb to see through the Japanese, and now we are paying for it. We realize they are a dangerous and aggressive enemy- but where they have been met by anything like equal strength, they have been licked...
...First, that dumb look on the face of the nation comes, not from apathy, but from shock, and as any doctor will tell you (and any of the new First Aiders), shock is extremely serious and must be handled with great delicacy or it may prove fatal, no matter what the cause...
...Please. He hit safely on the following: the difference between poi, soy, loy, oy; the gist of the Bordereau letter; an outline of the Willy-Nicky correspondence; the names of this generation's brightest comet, brightest planet, brightest satellite, brightest star. The ballplayer who made John Kieran look dumb was Morris ("Moe") Berg, catcher-coach of the Boston...