Word: dumbness
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There are two types of rabies: cerebros final irritation (furious rabies); nerve system degeneration (dumb rabies). Both are fatal after symptoms occur. The only hope lies in an early application of the Pasteur treatment...
Entered pompously, in this traditional emergency, Sir Thomas Lonsdale Webster, Clerk of the House. Gesturing in dumb show, he pointed to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who then had leave to say that His Majesty would graciously permit his Faithful Commons to choose a new Speaker...
Still faintly resisting in dumb show, Captain Fitzroy was then led by his Conservative Nominator and Laborite Seconder, who jointly conducted him to the Chair. He was now the Speaker-Elect. The Sergeant at Arms, Admiral Sir Colin Keppel, could and did remove the enormous Mace from under its table and placed it upon the table...
Divorced. Jacqueline Logan, saccharine cinemactress; from one Robert Gillespie; in Los Angeles. She charged that he kicked her and called her dumb...
...nephew was going to marry the girl, the absurd female cinema censor was going to marry a Jewish cinemaker, the old bachelor was going to marry a woman whose age approached his own. When she had accepted his proposal with these words: "God made women beautiful and dumb; beautiful so you would love us and dumb so we could love you," the man smoothed his "tweeds" and went home. His evening had been well spent...