Word: dumbness
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...poor man, beggar man, and even to thief, the burglar seems to have taken him at his word. And the doubting Thomas awoke yesterday morning to find that a modicum of his store had been spirited away, because, to use his own ungracious phrase, "he had been too dumb to have a lock...
...first time, his coming was heralded by a super-Shavianism. In the New York Times, blind, deaf, gentle Helen Keller told how, when she once met him and admiringly addressed him in England at Lady Astor's, he snapped: "All Americans are blind and deaf-and dumb!" (TIME, March...
...Americans say the same thing?" Her companion tapped his words into her hand. Lady Astor put in, ''Shaw, don't you realize that this is Helen Keller? She is deaf and blind." Snapped brutal poseur Shaw, "Why, of course! All Americans are deaf and blind-and dumb...
...Holly, N. J., Ralph Eshelman, bread wagon driver, noticed on two successive days that Joseph Carney, dumb cripple, was peering out of his window, tapping feebly on the pane. On the third day Eshelman broke in the door, found famished Joseph Carney alone with the body of his mother, two days dead...
Last week came the cracker that drew roars of glee from all Paris. Of the 72 Deputies, nine wrote to the E. D. L. N. G. promising their undying support. The dumb Deputies...