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Word: dumb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...star in Broadway's Twentieth Century. Host Ferrer never got a chance to deliver the speech he had planned in honor of Actress Swanson's Oscar. After the news came over the radio from Hollywood that Judy Holliday had won the best-actress award (for the dumb blonde in Born Yesterday), Gloria Swanson gave an impromptu message of her own to the nightclub audience: "Naturally, I'm disappointed. The Old Grey Mare has got to get going again, that's all. Tomorrow's another day. I'll have to start trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Oscars | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

Till Prensa speaks, let us be dumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: All for One | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

Born Yesterday. As the dumb blonde who eventually wises up, Judy Holliday steals the show in this movie version of Garson Kanin's Broadway hit comedy (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 2, 1951 | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...side of virtue stood the committee's sharp, relentless counsel, Rudolph Halley, and the senatorial members of the committee who sat in New York. Opposed was a sullen collection of superbly tailored racketeers, gimlet-eyed gamblers, dumb cops, venal politicians and slick lawyers who looked as though they had trooped in from Hollywood's Central Casting bureau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Biggest Show on Earth | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

Born Yesterday. As the dumb blonde who wises up, Judy Holliday steals the movie version of Garson Kanin's Broadway hit comedy (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 26, 1951 | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

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