Word: dumbness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...volume, three inches thick, bound in black seal and inscribed "In Memoriam Calvin Coolidge Jr.," was completed last week by the deaf and dumb employes of Walter Hyams & Co. of Manhattan. It was ordered by President Coolidge soon after his younger son's death more than a year ago. The volume is filled with clippings about his son chronologically arranged and mounted so as to insure permanency...
...wish to decide for yourself without waste of time, she played Lola Pratt in Seventeen, and the daughter of the curiosity shop in Tweedles (TIME, Aug. 20, 1923); was a year on tour in The First Year with her husband, Gregory Kelly; and last season was the incredibly dumb girl friend of the family in Mrs. Partridge Presents (TIME...
...word came from Downing Street. Foreign Minister Austen Chamberlain-son of Imperialist Joe*- was as dumb as the lions in Trafalgar Square...
...Fiske because, during the last 25 of her 60 years of life, she has devoted herself to the cause of suffering beasts. She has worn no furs, no feathers; her stage ermine has been cotton batting; no flesh has she eaten. She spoke of our responsibility toward our dumb fellow creatures, which civilization has met "without intelligence, without justice and without mercy...
...liberal or even reforming intentions has disclosed its hand. Mankind, from the cradle onward, is to be remodeled by a page of inspired precepts, according to the latest issue. Among other duties, man is to "help and protect the weak, the suffering, the young, and the old, and dumb animals"--a notable climax! Who will hereafter revolt, when in his youth he is taught to "respect all who have more wisdom, and to reverence all that is good...