Word: dumbness
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...This issue (prohibition) will be in the minds and upon the lips of the voters from the day the conventions adjourn until the day the polls close. Everybody, except the deaf and dumb and the candidates, will discuss...
...speech to the New York Women's Committee for Law Enforcement, Senator Borah said: "Everybody, except the deaf & dumb and the candidates, will be discussing it. . . . Under proper leadership the people of the United States will enforce any law which they are willing to repeal. Under proper leadership they will repeal any law which they are unwilling to enforce. Let us not play the game below the intelligence and the courage and the character of the people." In a speech last week to the National Grange convention at Cleveland, Senator Borah said: "You know perfectly well that a political...
Those people are dumb, for they lack vocal.cords. The vocal cords are two short bands of muscles that cross the larynx. In breathing air passes between the cords. To make sounds, the cords assume varying tensions; the passing air makes them vibrate; vowel sounds result: the palate acts as a sounding board, the mouth as a resonance chamber. In talking the palate, tongue, teeth and lips modify vocal sounds into speech...
...little less than impudence and forthwith began a campaign look-ing .toward his recall. The French Government was constrained to ask its envoy in Moscow, M. Jean Herbette, to make friendly recommendations to the Kremlin to this effect. But the Bolshevik authorities remained deaf to the French request and dumb so far as M. Rakovsky was concerned...
...directors of the theatre thought I was talent full," he relates, "but during the ten years of my service in Moscow Art Theatre from the period thousand nine hundred six till thousand nine hundred sixteen they gave me no one but one speaking part. All other parts were dumb...