Word: dumbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earnest, had dinned from railroad sidings, auditoriums, all around the radio dial. It did not stop until Nov. 5. There, according to convention, it should have stopped for good, since a majority of the voters voted for a golden voice instead. But the election, far from striking the Voice dumb, gave it new inspiration...
...DEAD CAN TELL-Helen Rellly-Random House ($2). Plugging New York's Finest, this latest Inspector McKee story deals with a couple of murders in the Fast Set. There's evidence that a dead woman lives, that sex is not dead, that Medical Examiner Fernandez is dumb like a fox. Recommended...
Excerpts from Mr. Willkie's talks in and around Chicago include the following choice morsels: "The hell with Chicago."-"I want to find out if you really are too damn dumb to understand. Is anyone here so damn dumb that he thinks we can go on another four years, anyone so damn dumb that he cannot realize that burden?"-"I can do as much work as any damn...
...room we have very good intelligent people but by my house there are a lot of drunk men. There is a man called 'The Snake.' He sells liquor. One day he tried to make my father drunk. My mother said, 'Don't the be so dumb. We need the money for rent...
...called to me and said, 'Do you want some candy?' I told my mother and she said, 'Did you take the candy, Shirley?' And I said, 'I am not so dumb as you think I am mother...