Word: dumbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sally O'Neil heads the cast as the stage-struck Boston debutante, whose friends says: "She isn't really ignorant; just dumb." The really juicy part, though, is Gaylord Mason's. He's Norman, the guiding genius of the mad household of actors who will--and do--resort to anything to get the attention of a theatrical producer. He plays the part up to the hilt, with enough vigor and enthusiasm to keep the whole thing going by himself...
Melancthon Fowinkle returned from the Civil War wishing it had never ended. It had cost him his right arm. But it had given him, a baldish intellectual, years of equality with his dumb, knightly brother Fairfax, who had died in the Southern apogee of courage, under Pickett at Gettysburg. Dealing death, and living with it constantly, was the most heartening experience Melancthon had ever known...
...people are not aware of any danger, that they don't know what it is all about? I don't think so. I think they are pretty much aware of their danger; they are willing to do anything to win this war. They are not apathetic and dumb...
...Airacobra fighter] will climb like a homesick angel," reads one. "A bt-13 [Vultee trainer] won't." , Officially unmentioned but part & parcel of the safety campaign is a grapevine disciplinary system. The accident-preventers launch a word-of-mouth report that Pilot Joe Doe pulled a pretty dumb one when he groundlooped that P-4O. Presently the gossip reaches Pilot Joe Doe, who feels terrible...
...slight pay, the dreams of better jobs and bossy executive positions began to grow increasingly vague. Especially since there was now a mediocre wife and two mediocre kids. But it must be tough, Vag felt, to have no one to take it out on but a bunch of dumb pupils who didn't appreciate how great he really could have been if he had only had some breaks or had the time...