Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lives in fat little Mrs. Posilipo's lodging house and works in a bakery. So does handsome Teena, representing the Latins. Her lips and dress are red. Her eyes and teeth flash against the swarthy background of her skin. Jencic, in a big, slow, dumb, serf-like way, wants her. Because the girls at the bakery dared her to, she took Jencic's hand one day and told him she liked him. When he humbly tries to follow this up, she turns on him angrily with: "I'm not so hard up I got to walk with...
...cigaret societies pointed to young King Zog of Albania as a frightful warning. Having smoked a small carload of cigarets (coarse, loose-rolled Macedonias) in the past year,* King Zog developed such a cough that his Italian physician announced that he had completely lost his voice. King Zog was dumb. Alarming news that the dumb Zog's ailment might be cancer of the throat caused European chancelleries to turn anxious eyes on Albania. Despite its bachelor king, Albania is already an Italian protectorate to all intents and purposes. Diplomats feared that the death of King Zog, the disturbances that...
...physical director. This form of exercise has been replaced by competitive games, and it is interesting to know that in this building these, is a very small space devoted to the old type gymnasium facilities. I doubt if there will be more than a dozen pairs of dumb bells or Indian clubs in the whole building, but in their place we shall have swimming, wrestling, boxing, fencing, basketball, indoor tennis and other competitive games which are far more stimulating and character-building to the boy and to the instructor than the methods used twenty years...
...Irene Castle Mclaughlin of Chicago, onetime arbiter (dress, dancing, hair, gait), became last week a special police officer-"So I can protect dogs and other dumb animals and see that the law is enforced regarding their treatment...
...Senator Heflin for bigotry, only to have the Democratic leader, Robinson of Arkansas, who has more than once rebuked Senator Heflin similarly, retort: "The Senator [Borah] can now speak of religious liberty, but you never heard him make such an eloquent appeal during the campaign. Then he was as dumb as an oyster on the overshadowing issue...