Word: dumbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long line of card sharks, and does a neat job of trimming Henry Fonda. The latter gives an entirely convincing picture of a man who has been up the Amazon and away from women one year too long. There will never be another actor who can be as dumb and pliable in the hands of a determined woman...
...some people suggest that under the terms of H.R. 1776, Mr. Roosevelt might give away part or all of the Navy. How could could anybody be so dumb, says Mr. Roosevelt. Don't people know he is fond of the Navy? Then why would he give it away? Why, he would just as soon stand on his head...
...from civilian to military life] as rapidly as possible and to lay the foundations for your successful career as a soldier." Since 1919 the hard-boiled sergeant, the bull-roaring officer have been fading from the military scene. Their replacements are officers and noncoms taught that intelligent teamwork, not dumb obedience, is what an army needs to make it hum, that enlisted soldiers must know (at least generally) the whys & wherefores of what they are told...
...Write a Book (sweet), Love Is My Friend (torchy), Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (catchy). Cigar-chewing Lyricist Lorenz Hart, the pint-sized genius with a two-quart capacity, abets the spirit of the occasion with leerics about zippers, canopied beds, secret telephones, mirrored ceilings, iniquity, chambermaids who are deaf, dumb & blind. Brazen little June Havoc, sister of Burlesqueen Gypsy Rose Lee, does a sidesplitting parody of all kinds of cafe singing and yields nothing to her sister in ability to make a rhinestone gown twitch with significance. In singing Zip, the show's funniest novelty song, a girl named...
Those two teams certainly packed a lot of punch and so did most of the rooters. (That's rather good, don't you think?) I'm so dumb about football--my escort (oh, no, I didn't go alone) nearly killed me when I asked him if those were draft numbers the players were wearing on their backs...