Word: dumbness
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...bones of the Kings and Queens of Spain. They prayed before their ancestors' tombs. Then they entered the train. So deathly pale was the Prince of the Asturias that he had to be lifted into the car. Prince Jaime, the second son, six feet tall but born deaf and dumb, babbled pitifully. Victoria Eugenie sobbed...
...that workers screamed at the top of their voices, that every automobile blew at least two blasts to every block. . . . But now there is everywhere a quiet as of a tomb. The natives, in the appalling realization of what has happened within two short days, have suddenly been stricken dumb...
...this verdict, we pray you be dumb, Dumb, dumb! Your anger pray bury, For all will be merry...
England's Sitwell trio (Osbert, Edith, Sacheverell), sophisticated rather than passionate poets, conceal their artistry beneath Sitwellian artificiality that annoys many a plain person, delights their devotees and themselves. But occasionally, as in Brother Osbert's Dumb-Animal stories, humanity cracks the super-Etonian veneer, sentiment overcomes even a Sitwell and enables him to communicate with...
...Dumb-Animal's English edition Author Sitwell has appended pages of English press comment on his previous work, some flattering, some not. Unflattering examples: ". . . merely caddish," ". . . snobbish...