Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born Yesterday. As the dumb blonde who wises up, Judy Holliday steals the movie version of Garson Kanin's Broadway hit comedy (TIME...
Gambling requires no fleets of trucks, cutting and bottling plants, secret garages, machine-gun battles with Coast Guard cutters or dumb cops on motorcycles. Gambling can be a pretty peaceful business and a man can keep the overhead down. Slot machines, punchboards, policy and numbers games, gambling casinos and bookmaking-the gangsters tried them all, made easy money on them all. Their customers range from the penny numbers players of the big-city slums to the big-money set who keep their change in century notes...
...House of Commons, ever alert to possible cruelty toward dumb animals, had some questions. Richard Hurd, Tory member for the Newbury division of Berkshire, asked Griffiths: "Can the Minister tell us how the birds that will survive are to be fed for the next few months...
Born Yesterday. As the dumb blonde who wises up, Judy Holliday steals the show (TIME...
Born Yesterday. As the dumb blonde who wises up, Judy Holliday steals the movie version of Garson Kanin's Broadway hit comedy (TIME...