Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suspicion of that least of dumb animals, the flea...
...George T. Angell, founder and first President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Although Deuteronomy 22 :16 contains humane laws for animals, and Deuteronomy 25:4 says: " Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the grain," Massachusetts, in 1868, was treating its dumb animals in a careless or outrageous manner. Mr. Angell, busy lawyer, founded...
...masterpiece. This makes the book cockide to begin with because who ever has been there when a woman has started a argument and then been lazy enough to leave her opponent, if of the suspender half of the family, end it. Besides Nina is just dumb enough to get tender at the end of her piece and say something about how women couldn't get along without men anyhow, at which Ring measures his distance and steps in and ends the fight with one wallop. He says in one place that his wife never reads his stuff...
...King of the World". A Buddhist legend, a myth if you will; this King appeared in India and Siam over two thousand years ago. And "he blessed the people with a golden apple with the figure of a Lamb above it. The blind received their sight, the dumb spoke, the deaf heard, the crippled freely moved and the dead arose, wherever the eyes of the King of the World rested"! This same King also appeared at a monastery in Mongolia in 1890, and prophesied the World War, the tall of eight great kings, and the Revolution. . . . You may believe this...
...Curtis Nelson '24 Lightnin', a messenger to Antony R. S. Flinn '23 Octavious Caesar, a Triumvir, by Gosh! R. H. Sears '24 Octavia, a worthy decoration in any home P. F. Pond '25 The Comedy Element P. L. Cheney 2S. L. A. Cleo's Messenger, as dumb as he looks M. S. Jones...