Word: dumbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other encounter, a close call, had spared Runyon's life but struck him dumb. His larynx had been removed, to check a throat cancer. Since then, his gold pencil, by swift jottings in a loose-leaf notebook, had done all his talking for him. ("When he was mad," said a pal, "he'd just write in big, bold letters.") In "Mindy's," at Table 50 in the Cub Room of the Stork Club, and all along Broadway, the hard, bright, tawdry street that was his beat, the guys and dolls had known he was on borrowed time...
...shot." For a scared man, he was refreshingly articulate. Said he: "I think it's time we unite this country. Much of our present strife is a 50-50 proposition, caused by stiff-necked managements and stiff-necked labor leaders. Employers have been as dumb as it's possible to be, not frank with either their employes or the public...
Billie Dawn is apt to endure as the theater's best Dumb Broad. Garson Kanin did it in spite of her Brooklyn accent...
...dumb to tell the crooked rose...
Born Yesterday. Amusing yarn about a big-shot racketeer who decides to have his dumb blonde educated and picks too good a teacher (TIME...