Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bren is a dumb Irish cop named O'Malley, noted for his hard-headed tactics in handing out tickets for minor traffic violations and for his strict enforcement of the out-of-date Book of Ordinances. When he refuses to case up on the minor offenders, he is transferred to a safety beat which consists of playing nursemaid to a group of schoolchildren crossing streets...
...handed down, ruddy-faced Royal Freeman Hunger, financial editor of the Chicago News, gave his version of what has become a cause celebre in Chicago trust circles. Wrote he: "The [First National] bank gave his [Mr. Busby's] affairs close consideration. . . . The stocks . . . are still held today. Those dumb securities, a little pile of stock certificates with gilt edges, have reached out of the obscurity of the vaults to vindicate Traylor and cover the trust department of the bank with laurels...
...cover information handled in January. In History I--where there are two lectures a week, two additional lectures in October and November, and one in December, would give ample time to replace January lecture hours. Since there is a section meeting once a week for 'C' men and "dumb-bunnies", the supplementary lectures would necessitate several bi-weekly tests for these sections. Ordinarily they have one quizz a week, except in the latter part of the year when bi-weekly tests are instituted anyway...
...that account should take care of them. Reginald Owen and Mona Barrie make good, sound villains. But the biggest surprise of the show, together with what is probably the only real acting comes from Franchot Tone. For the most intelligent man in Hollywood, he is amazingly effective at being dumb. He makes Joan wish for Clark by telling her she wouldn't care to neck, would she? And he makes Clark glow with low satisfaction, by allowing himself, the rival roving reporter, always to get thoroughly stymied...
...past two years, "D" and "C" students have been placed in consolidated groups, thus eliminating "dumb bunny" sections a bad psychological influence on "D" students. Instead the bunnies are assigned to one extra conference a week; however, they are still designated on course records by the figure of a rabbit stamped opposite the names...