Word: dumbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some Cannon and some cannot have wisdom," the Bage murmured sleepily, but you, my friend, are as dumb a Kluchas I have ever seen...
...like a Harvarder, far as I can see, all you got to do is act dumb. Stupid, like...
...final stage is the "back home again in disillusionment" period, when either Radcliffe or local talent becomes the goal of the world-weary Harvard man. It is at this point that he discovers the naive beauty of the Pine Manor belle. She's always dumb but often rich, and though her regulations are stupidly strict, she can be persuaded to "check out to the library" on warm evenings...
...newspaper printing anything although everybody and his dog knows she is here. ... As I suppose is usual in these cases-although this is our first-people seem quite baffled because the papers do not carry a story. . . . At any rate any spies within 100 miles would be pretty dumb if they hadn't gathered the rudiments of the news about...
Miss Sothern has an intuitive understanding of the adroitly dumb Maisie. But she is leary of becoming too closely identified with the character. Says she: "I love Maisie, but I'm damned if I want to be Maisie forever. . . . When people on the street holler at you, 'Hi there, Maisie!', you begin to wonder whether you're Ann Sothern or just that nice bag Maisie...