Word: dumbness
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...Congress of Indian Nationalists wants freedom unadulterated for those dumb and semi-starved millions. The Congress has chosen as a means of attaining this truth and nonviolence. I am aware that not all Congressmen have lived up to that ideal and the Congress will deserve the curses of the world if it acts contrary...
...entertained by Ambassador Edge. And one day as he was lolling in his hotel bedroom an agent of the French Foreign Office arrived unexpectedly and decorated him with the rank of Commander of the Legion of Honor. Mayor Walker was, for the first time in his life, struck dumb. This unprecedented honor was genuinely unexpected. Champagne was ordered and he regained his speech. Next day he went to call on President Doumer "to pay my respects to my chief personally." His tentative departure for the U. S. was set for Sept. 16, before which he will visit London.? Said...
...Government which in turn would give the local governments 99? on $1 for public works. Eight times has Mr. Coxey got his bill for the Treasury to issue fiat money introduced in Congress, eight times has it failed of enactment. Declares "General" Coxey: "The American people are still as dumb as beetles." But last week old Mr. Coxey did not think Massillon Republicans were so dumb. They gave him 2,983 votes and nominated him for Mayor over two rivals, one of them the Republican incumbent. Because Massillon is normally Republican, Nominee Coxey expects to be elected next November, after...
That venerable columnist, Arthur Brisbane, is alleged to have accused Funnyman Will Rogers with being educated at Eton and Oxford. I am a longtime admirer of Rogers and have always suspected that he was not as "dumb" as he attempted to act. Is Brisbane's accusation true...
...cutting down the trees, his ideal beloved Isabelle is living with the estate-agent, just for want of somebody better. The Pastoral Symphony tells how a Protestant country pastor takes home a destitute little blind girl to his astounded wife & family. The child is not only blind but apparently dumb, beastlike, filthy. With infinite patience, amazing success, the pastor teaches her to talk, educates her into a flower of intelligence and purity. Naturally she loves him. His affection for her he considers purely paternal, long after his wife & family know better. When his son falls in love with the girl...