Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have one large central room, which would contain one or two basketball courts, and would be completely equipped with gymnastic apparatus including, scaling ladders, climbing poles, horizontal bars, scaling walls, parallel bars, and leather covered horses, as well as the lighter apparatus such as bar-bells, quarter-staves, wands, dumb-bells, single sticks, and Indian clubs. Branching off from this central space are smaller rooms, which would be used for boxing, wrestling, and fencing...
...past they have so jealously guarded and thereby secure greater brotherhood among themselves in practice as well as in theory. The alternative proposed by Senator Lodge, that of reserving to each nation the right of self-determination in questions of domestic policy would make of the League a veritable dumb-show. For if the question of immigration were to be exempted from the League's jurisdiction, why not likewise the questions of limitation of armament and the manufacture of munitions...
...turn the attention of the 'bleacher student' from the college teams and center it on his own activities, is not through the speeches and magazine articles which have continued for years, nor through the radical alteration of any of the features of the 'big games,' nor through dumb-bell exercises and calisthenics; the practical method to bring this theory 'general athletics for all, highly specialized athletics for none' is to require physical exercise for Freshmen and to place an enthusiast in charge of the work...
...inhabit the gold coast; those who make the clubs, and those who don't? One could hardly object if the aristocracy of the College were one of intellect, but I am sure that Mr. Lloyd knows that it is not. At Yale or Dartmouth one is blind or dumb if he does not know personally the large majority of his class; at Harvard he is fortunate if he can say "hello" to even a small minority...
Delicate and dainty pantomimie will be a decided novelty for a great many of us, for what dumb shows we have seen are of the slap-stick, rough and tumble type which fill our vaudeville houses. Here, however, is a play in which a singular art has been carried to its height. We never miss the speaking, for we are absorbed in the delightfully foolish little plot and amazed at the grace of the whole thing. Pierrot's home and phrynette's boudoir furnish two admirable settings for an entire evolution of emotions and from nonsense to a tinge...