Word: dumbness
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...doctor." Reply of catechist: "No, you were a quack and thief." The same question and answer were repeated until the prisoner answers: "I was a quack and thief." A merchant was compelled to reply: "I was a swindler." and a hand worker to reply: "I was a dumb Jew without brains enough to cheat Germans...
...course I'm dumb, diplomatically and politically! Who isn't? But with all the talk about giving the African colonies back to Germany - or what not - why does no one suggest the obvious solution? Why not give them all back to the Africans? Not necessarily to the Negroes, though that might be proper, too; but to the Africans? Because that's what will ultimately have to be done. Neither England, Germany, Italy, nor Belgium can indefinitely hold any part of Africa as colonial exploitation material...
...women in one's room, and to conceal the fact of being out after hours. Wayne Morris as Billy Randolph manages to get the just blame for all these deception,--being a big hearted with bungler with big ideas. Priscilla Lane is his inspiration, while Eddie Albert as the dumb athlete and William Tracy as the hazed "rat" both give complete performances...
Upholding the future of the theatre as opposed to motion-pictures, Hardwicke stated that "dogs, little children and dumb blondes are the best actors before a camera." He emphasized the importance of the audience to dramatic creation, pointing out that no real acting could be done over a two minute stretch with hours of interval between sections of a scene...
Last week Joe Palooka, dumb but lovable comic-strip prize fighter, was wandering across the sands of an African desert to an uncertain fate. In a moment of despair he had joined the French Foreign Legion. Now he thinks he is being sought by the Legion as a deserter. Little does he know what his followers in almost 500 newspapers know: that fortnight ago the President of France pardoned him after receiving a request from President Roosevelt...