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...dead oared by the dumb went upward with the flood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Alarums & Excursions | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

...Deaf and Dumb Clubs of real deaf and dumb people for the purpose of getting deaf and dumb people* to vote for Calvin Coolidge on Nov. 4. was an idea brought forth last week by Republican campaign managers, genesis of the idea was the fact that, before her marriage, Grace Goodhue was a teacher of deaf and dumb pupils in a deaf and dumb school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Idea | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

...People displays its youth (brother and sister) immoderately bored with their own expensive section of humanity. Sister is engaged to the silliest ass English Lord that has been dragged up from antiquity and dusted off with modern slang in quite a period. Brother has set his heart on a dumb-but-honest chorus girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 1, 1924 | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

...thoroughly demoralized the children?the only son develops into a degenerate?and brought the rest of her own family and friends to feed at the trough. Only one daughter, Josephine Mylius, withstands the influence, and a battle ensues between the wicked, but clever, and the good, but dumb, which concludes at the end of Part I with the defeat of Josephine. She is unable, in a world wholly full of rottenness and decay, to find her own feet; and Ulrika achieves her most brilliant success in marrying her off against her will to a clever and unscrupulous scoundrel who uses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold*: What's Wrong with the World? | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

...faith-healing career of Rev. Robert B. H. Bell, of Denver, was reached last week at a noon service in old St. Paul's Chapel on lower Broadway, Manhattan. Countless dozens went away, saying they were cured. By their own testimony the blind saw, the deaf heard, the dumb spoke, the maimed walked. A little cross-eyed girl threw away her glasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hath Made Thee Whole | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

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