Word: dumbness
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Window Panes. Nothing is so utterly glum as misery in Russia or so inscrutable. An intimate glimpse into a peasant household reveals a husband who slashes a great deal with his whip, a wife who suffers commensurately, a son stricken dumb. Comes an escaped convict with Love in his heart. He tarries awhile in this hovel of Muscovite anguish to bring light into the souls of the people, and by token of a dusted window, into the room, the main scene of sorrow. Apparently, this constitutes a symbol. It is in the same vein as the Servant in the House...
...Aldo Nuti aims carefully and shoots, not the tiger, but the Nestoroff. The tiger tears him apart. Gubbio cranks on until someone fires pointblank through the bars into the tiger's ear. He thereby achieves perfection as a cinematograph operator. Emotionless? Oh, no. His suppressed terror strikes him dumb forever after. But except when he thinks of the fierce, innocent tiger's death, he has peace...
...Dumb about Judith...
TIME'S current events is great. Score a win for us, 9% to 1%. ... We were dumb about Judith's* method of murder...
...daughter Eppie really was not the salt of the earth, but I don't consider it worth while. I should also like to make a few remarks on Hardy's "Far from the Madding Crowd," but I might be tempted to make a pun. Meanwhile the dumb-looking youth next to me will be calling for his fifth blue book so that he can tell all of Gore Hall at dinner this noon how much he wrote on the English exam: It won't do him any good, of course, since every one will either fail to hear...