Word: dumbness
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...Jokesmiths joined the fun. A story circulated about one Wieslaw Hawrylowicz who escaped from Russia disguised as a cow. "Would you believe it! He sewed himself up in a real cow's skin and hobbled over the frontier on all fours in full view of Red guards so dumb they never knew the difference...
...came to praise the defendant's character. So did Edward ("Just Call Me Eddie") McCloskey, ex-prize-fighting Mayor of Johnstown, Pa., who offered B. E. F. mendicants a home and then had to run them out. Said Mayor McCloskey: "I didn't think the Hoover Administration was so dumb as to put on anything like this before election, with the Senator being one of their big shots. You can see from this that I'm not a friend of the Administration, but I will say I'm a friend of Senator Davis. It's tough for the Senator...
Last week, on the eighth day after he had left Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., for Warsaw, Polish-American Pilot Stanislaus Felix Hausner, too exhausted to talk, was rescued from his floating Bellanca by a tanker, 600 mi. off the coast of Portugal. Astonished airmen marvelled at his "dumb luck." Pilot Hausner's attractive wife, Martha, and the pastor of the Polish-Catholic Church in Newark, N. J., which they attended were joyful but not astonished. They remarked that Pilot Hausner had carried a medal of St. Christopher, patron saint of travelers...
...explanation had been made and the matter was concluded. So too was the perplexing question of the Cinnamon balls. The young gentleman spied his dog in the distance and whistled him up. For a man of his Napoleonic stature, creatures, be they dumb or ever so valuable, were merely pawns to his bidding. The dog saw the Cinnamon balls and history repeated itself; "the dog it was that died...
...takes the same continual patience and coaching that all animal training requires, although I believe that seals are more intelligent than most of the dumb beasts. However, when we receive them they appear only too stupid and obstinate. Our seals come from the region around San Francisco, and are in a wild and untamed state when we got them. Two to six months, depending on the seal, are required to teach a seal to balance a ball on its nose and nearly two years to acquire the art of playing on the horns...