Word: dumbness
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Miss Greenwood is a friendly sort of person who takes the audience along with her--even into the bath room scene which is the star performance of the evening, being a riotous combination of two telephones, a dumb waiter, a dumber delivery man, hot water, cold ice and a burglar. Among other good sketches must be classed "Crossed Wires" in which the operator gets off at least six good ones in a row, and "Crystal Wedding Day". This has in it some brand new mirror effects...
...point of order of the learned senior Senator Lodge from Massachusetts and had, thereby, as Mr. Heflin put it, "participated in a rape of the rules of the United States Senate." But nobody cared greatly; even the Republicans were inclined to the opinion that they would "ditch this dumb Vice President" when they came to making up their ticket...
...ourselves, and that the President of the United States, the president of Harvard College, the members of the Princeton team or any other unfortunate individual that chanced to be about had better get out of the way if he valued his health. The freshman picked himself up dumb-founded, tears of humiliation in his eyes and hating Haughton. P. D. had had no intention of being mean or unkind, but nothing was to break into the background he had set for us, nothing detract from our line of thought. Later he looked up the boy, explained the situation, told...
Johnson was backed by persons believing in his honesty, simplicity, pertinacity. Backers of Schall made a butt of Johnson's notorious difficulties of speech and leisurely mental processes. Republican buttons appeared: "The joke has gone far enough"; "Schall is blind,* but Magnus is dumb"; and Schall's affliction was said to be gaining him both sympathy and curiosity. Decidedly close voting was expected; but, no matter who won, it was certain that the junior Senator from Minnesota would be an insurgent. Shrewd, with a tendency toward tartness, Schall is but a nominal Republican...
Because she was Maggie, John, the colossal dumb-bell, became famous; because she was Maggie she never let him know it. Because he was John, he fell in love with a costly piece of aristocratic millinery; because he was the husband of a genius, he was saved from his own folly...