Word: dumbness
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...twelve years old, but I always have, and always will, detest any being (or fiend, as Subscriber Marlborough put the German, Schwarz) who would, for the sake of anything, make life miserable for any dumb beast or animal. When I read the article on "Horses" [TIME, May 31, GERMANY] where the German moving picture producer, Schwarz, sprung a trap under two horses to make them tumble down the cliff onto the rocks below for the sake of making moving pictures of their agony, I felt as one would if someone would suddenly tell you that a certain man had tortured...
...good Christian nation and ideal country America is'? Well, that's all bunk, I tell you. They are just the same human beings as we are, and not all the people go to church either, as you and I dreamed. I don't know why I was so dumb in believing every thing that those God's messengers told us without considering general human nature whatsoever...
CYNTHIA CODENTRY?Ernest Pascal?Brentano ($2). The psychological network that entangles Cynthia Codentry and causes her retreat from metropolitan philanderings to the dumb worship of Dirt-Farmer Swedge of Long Island, all unravels to the old copybook line about him who hesitates. In his wisdom and mercy, Author Pascal makes manifest some reasons for Cynthia's hesitations ? unnatural home life with her divorced actor-father; the enervating effect of life among rich school girls; a sophisticated girl's natural fear of being prematurely pigeonholed by life. But these extenuations do not suffice to save Cynthia from standing indicted...
...allotment of brisk dancing. Eva Puck and Sam White, vaudeville favorites, are the featured entertainers. They too, if not supreme, are soundly satisfactory. They tell the story of a chicken-rancher on Long Island who became a champion six-day bicycle rider. And of his girl, who was so dumb that when he took her to The Big Parade he had to buy her a flag...
Upon such grounds as these impends a suit before whose complications the most intrepid jurists were struck dumb...