Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...saddest of all was the case of Luke Briotta, 13, deaf and dumb. Pilot Charles Potholm took him for a ride and went into a loop-the-loop with the idea of frightening him into speech and hearing. But the plane never came out of that loop; Luke Briotta is still deaf and dumb-and dead. There had been a sickening dive, an explosion and flames, an ugly hole in a swamp near Agawam, Mass. Pilot Potholm and another passenger also died...
More deaf people, and dumb, tried airplane rides last week to cure their deficiencies. But they got no more good than did Julius Shaefer, 10, terrified the previous week (TIME, Aug. 27). Fright or sudden air drops may temporarily help cure some cases of deafness or vocal paralysis, but not when essential nerves are dead or brain centres undeveloped...
There are two types of rabies: cerebros final irritation (furious rabies); nerve system degeneration (dumb rabies). Both are fatal after symptoms occur. The only hope lies in an early application of the Pasteur treatment...
Entered pompously, in this traditional emergency, Sir Thomas Lonsdale Webster, Clerk of the House. Gesturing in dumb show, he pointed to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who then had leave to say that His Majesty would graciously permit his Faithful Commons to choose a new Speaker...
Still faintly resisting in dumb show, Captain Fitzroy was then led by his Conservative Nominator and Laborite Seconder, who jointly conducted him to the Chair. He was now the Speaker-Elect. The Sergeant at Arms, Admiral Sir Colin Keppel, could and did remove the enormous Mace from under its table and placed it upon the table...