Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which Mr. Crispin cuts with a surgical scalpel the likeness of an ass. The American is subjected to mental torture. But just as Mr. Crispin, drawing on a surgeon's blouse, is about to consummate his fiendish plans for the Englishman, the American and the girl, the three dumb Japs, squealing laughter from tongueless mouths, have their own revenge. This is the last scene and is the most thrilling in a season which has tried very hard to provide thrills. Edward G. Robinson (Mr. Crispin) and his Garrick Players did well...
...Iowa, to debate issues at Des Moines, where he was scheduled to speak on Nov. 1. Farmer Livingston was the man who heckled Nominee Curtis during his speech at Spencer, Iowa, in September; the man to whom Nominee Curtis finally and dangerously retorted: "I guess you're too damn dumb to understand." Farmer Livingston requested a public apology...
ARGENTINA President Inaugurated Lying athwart Buenos Aires like the shaft of a dumb-bell is the spacious Avenida de Mayo, weighted at one end by the Congressional Building and at the other by Government House. Last week the dumb-bell was joyously surrounded by human myriads. The day was the Fiesta de la Raza (the Festival of the Race), a national holiday in most countries of South America. In Buenos Aires it was also the day on which Argentina's mysterious, seclusive master politician. Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen, would for the second time be inaugurated President of the Republic...
...episode referred to by the Edmund Duffy caricature was when Nominee Curtis was heckled at Spencer, Iowa (TIME, Oct. 1). The quotation as given by Duffy is inaccurate. Nominee Curtis, vexed by questions about something he had already explained, cried: "I guess you are too dumb to understand...
...Curtis: "Yes, and on the lower brackets. ... I guess you are too dumb to understand...