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Word: dumb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born Yesterday. Judy Holliday's Academy Award-winning performance as the dumb blonde of the Broadway hit (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 16, 1951 | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...Open House. "All I had to do was bring a sexy evening gown, so I got out my royal blue velvet with the white ermine on top and got right over to the studio. There was no script or anything. They said, 'You just sit there and act dumb. Your name is Dagmar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Breathing, Just Breathing | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...summer." One of the things that make it nicer is a penthouse with a fine view of Central Park and a great many empty bookshelves. "I don't want to learn anything now," says Dagmar, explaining the absence of books. "If this is what you get for being dumb, I love it." Her success has also paid for a secretarial course for her sister, a college education for her brother, a new groom house for her parents in Huntington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Breathing, Just Breathing | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...best: the Kingfish owlishly taking his Army medical exam) are expertly staged and played. Despite a protest from the directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People* that such shows "tend to strengthen the conclusions among uninformed or prejudiced people that Negroes ... are inferior, lazy, dumb and dishonest," the TV Amos 'n' Andy seems set for a long and profitable run. Commercials: unobtrusive filmed spots in praise of Blatz beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

Born Yesterday. Judy Holliday's Academy Award-winning performance as the dumb blonde of the Broadway hit (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 9, 1951 | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

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