Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thoroughly demoralized the children?the only son develops into a degenerate?and brought the rest of her own family and friends to feed at the trough. Only one daughter, Josephine Mylius, withstands the influence, and a battle ensues between the wicked, but clever, and the good, but dumb, which concludes at the end of Part I with the defeat of Josephine. She is unable, in a world wholly full of rottenness and decay, to find her own feet; and Ulrika achieves her most brilliant success in marrying her off against her will to a clever and unscrupulous scoundrel who uses...
...faith-healing career of Rev. Robert B. H. Bell, of Denver, was reached last week at a noon service in old St. Paul's Chapel on lower Broadway, Manhattan. Countless dozens went away, saying they were cured. By their own testimony the blind saw, the deaf heard, the dumb spoke, the maimed walked. A little cross-eyed girl threw away her glasses...
...Germany, wrote a play called Masse Mensch. German socialists who had seen their "Christs dying on the barricades" greeted the play with awful zeal. It became the talk of Central Europe. It was translated into English by Poet Untermeyer, produced by the Theatre Guild, and struck its American audience dumb and weary...
Percy Hammond: "MoonFlower is a bit languid and discursive. It prefers loquacity to action . . . Mr. Blackmer's passions are . . . less dumb than dumbbell...
...POTTERS-Vivid flashes of satire striking at the all-American domestic dumb-bell-the husband...