Word: dumbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rode through quiet, cynical streets to the Western Electric plant, said to 5,000 workers: "He [Harry Hopkins] said the people were 'too damn dumb' to understand the reason why the New Deal can get away with the things it has. . . . You don't look 'dumb' to me." In a confused moment he made his first blunder, let slip: "To hell with Chicago." The cavalcade rushed off to the financial district, LaSalle Street. There Chicago's cool reception turned tumultuous. A ticker-tape blizzard showered down...
...rooms pursued by the distrustful but admiring clerk (Donald McBride); or gets caught in his wife's hat and dress by a suspicious psychologist; or tears around in Gail Patrick's leopard-spot dressing gown. And there is Granville Bates's first-rate bit as a dumb, irate, fuddyduddy judge who, having declared Irene Dunne legally dead, declares her legally alive so he can hold her in contempt of court...
...made his position unassailably strong when he got a rough-&-tumble pal of Ethiopian days, much-decorated Ettore Muti, appointed to Starace's job. Muti looks like a handsome U. S. gangster, and, not being too quick of brain or tongue, is the subject of merciless punning (muto = dumb). Last week Signor Muti had a gold medal pinned on his chest by Il Duce for having carried out 160 admirable bombing raids during the Spanish campaign...
...Orange, N. J. Last January a collision of these passions during his work for NLRB brought him before the Smith investigating committee, which gravely noted his written impressions of Coquille, Ore. ("God forsaken hole No.1 . . . should be given back to the Indians if a tribe could be found dumb enough to take it"); of Texas ("Whoever christened Texas 'God's country' was drunk or crazy"); and of his work in one case ("Insofar as the merits go, if I have my way this respondent is going to be given the 'business' or 'the works...
...read up on your history? There is no "school for the feebleminded" between Helena and Butte, but a large institute for the deaf, dumb, and blind. Also, the population of Helena...