Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the Royal House. Just now he is behind a sensible project to alter the Constitution so that, in case of need, one of King Alfonso's healthy daughters can inherit the Crown. As everyone knows Crown Prince Alfonso is a haemophile,? Prince Jaime deaf and almost dumb, Princes Juan and Gonzalo "mentally under-developed...
...When there were some visitors on the set he would say, 'Now Miss MacDonald, try to act for a change. Ach, but you are a dumb girl!' When I asked why he had engaged me for the role if I were so dumb he would say, 'Ach, I was dumb too, that day.' ... I wanted to see a finished print of The Love Parade. Every time I told Lubitsch he would tell me, 'Don't be so anxious, I've cut most of your scenes out. There's plenty of you lying around on the floor...
...song of his school is too dirge-like for his taste. There upon he writes a jazz version of his own, which he calls "Alma Mammy" and sings in his best Jolson manner before the assembled students. Even the football game is not taken too seriously for instance the dumb and lethargic Swedish tackle becomes the hero of the battle because his sweetheart playfully pots him with her air rifle just before the ball is passed, thus opening him to tear great holes in the opposing line...
...answer any question that comes his way. And some of the questions that are asked. The common ones are: "Where are you from?" "What is your P. C. S.?" (Previous condition of servitude), and several others concerning his past history and present status. However the majority are usually dumb or startling, tending to make the Plebe give a dumber answer...
...Budapest barker about to become a father, gets trapped holding up a cashier, commits suicide. Years later, returning to do a good deed on earth, he forgets his purpose, slaps his daughter, now grown up. U. S. audiences relished Liliom's gruff swagger, wept copiously over his wife's dumb agony, over the pair's never-mentioned love. Philosopher Liliom: "Nobody's right?but they all think they are. A lot they know...