Word: dumbness
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...know just how they stand in their studies will have potent influence. Not only will the family receive the list of marks--a list that often lacks significance and is glibly interpreted by the student--but all his friends may know just how he stands. He will see that "dumb-bell" from Dedham stands well above his friend whom he used to think was pretty clever. Perhaps in the finals be will be able to outdistance the crack student in his group...
Kitty Gordon has the feature act at Keith's this week. The former movie actress, assisted by a talented company, sang and displayed several brilliant gowns on Monday night. Marvel, a dumb mute, performed clever and difficult dances in the same act. Chester and Warren did acrobatic stunts; Caito Brothers jested and clog-danced; Mabel Burke sang; and Swift and Kelley offered "Gum Drops", and act filled with patter...
...songs it sees fit to state that "the Hasty Pudding hasn't caught us yet". In the "Dance of the Flying Fish", Miss Janice Liggett and Miss Elizabeth Caswell execute an exceptionally graceful dance number. At the end of the first act the Dance of the Dumb Bells is a mirth-provoker and well deserves the many encores it always receives. The Orchid show between the acts contains the most colorful and attractive of any of the costumes in the performance...
Every day I walk by the huge, dumb, cement shell known as the Germanic Museum. For months it aroused in me no feeling but an ironic amusement, common, I fancy, to nearly everyone in Cambridge. But lately, since the last production by the 47 Workshop in Agassiz Theatre, when the achievements of the company were glitteringly spread out for us with the enervating waste in labor under present conditions hung up as a dingy background, the thought has haunted my footsteps...
...Harvard men for the production of two Greek plays in the Stadium in 1915, "Iphigenia in Tauris" and the "Trojan Women." In addition to his extensive work in England he has sponsored many productions in New York. Two of his best known successes were "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife" and "The Doctor's Dilemma...