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Word: dumbest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1927-1927
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...company wore dinner coats (black ties). Had each man made, upon the white space below his chin, that series of penstrokes by which he subsists, the dumbest bellhop would have caught the evening's drift. Under the florid, jovial chin of an overgrown urchin chewing a cigar, for example, might have been sketched a domestic scene so provocatively platitudinous that no lettering would have been necessary to interpret it as "Ain't it a grand and glorious feeling?" or "When a feller needs a friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wows | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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