Word: dumbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dumb Crambo. Wilhelmina of The Netherlands once told her doll: "If you're not good, I'll turn you into a princess and then you'll have no one to play with." In Princess Elizabeth's life there was never any such grim circumscription. At the Duke's house in Piccadilly there were always a host of little cousins, lords and honorables for playmates. Devoted to horses (she pretended her legs were a team and called them Flycatcher and Harmony), she had her own pony at four. Her backyards were the family's vast...
Every August there was a visit to her maternal grandmother, the Countess of Strathmore, where Elizabeth and Margaret could romp in the ancient corridors of Macbeth's Castle Glamis. There were English Christmases at Sandringham, where the whole family gathered to sing carols, play charades, Dumb Crambo, Animal Grab and Consequences, and dance the Sir Roger de Coverley. And always & everywhere there were friendly relatives, dogs and horses...
...comedy business, named Sidney Lippman and Sylvia Dee, and most especially with Nancy Walker in the cast, the book becomes a secondary matter. It's built around a sharply-pointed parody of Joe College on his home grounds tossing out below-the-belt punches at the fraternity system, big dumb football heroes, Big Men On the Campus, Student Council elections, and particularly at the amateur left wing. Wrapped up in these goings-on is Asa Hearthrug a naive but willing freshman, played ably enough by Billy Redfield, who finds himself torn among three variegated bits of campus femininity...
...moralists; the Nuba have been euthanasians since way back. Once they are sure that a tribesman is possessed of a djinn (evil spirit), they bump him off. Everybody (in the Otoros), of course, is quite certain that djinns inhabit the bodies of the lame, the deaf and the dumb...
...goat wearing a big brass bell. Victim and goat are buried alive. When the bell stops ringing, the tribesmen know that the goat and the man are dead, and the djinn is banished. Recently explorers in the Otoros came across the graves of two crippled children and a deaf-&-dumb woman. Last week police arrested 22 tribesmen for murder...