Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press was willing to play dumb with Mr. Mclntyre's political faux pas, Republicans were not. Senator Gibson of Vermont, member of the Lobby Investigating Committee, promptly announced that he would ask to have Messrs. Mclntyre and Robert summoned to explain under oath their "relations" with Lobbyist Robinson and Associated Gas & Electric...
...review of 1,000 feet "because the king is greatly affected by noise." So were 150,000 spectators. Even at 1,000 feet the menacing clatter of the air armada filled Britons less with pride than fear. The great throng at the climax of the "Fly Past" seemed stricken dumb. Sober faces were eloquent of what everyone was thinking: "These are our planes, but they might be Germany...
...grated prisons where I cast him; For But rest - niggard and hours the and a naked light narrow on his space face - While the ship's traffic flowed, unceasing, past him. IV "Thus I speak at the schooled him word to - at go a and sign be come - dumb; To stand to his task, not seeking others to aid him; To share in honour what praise might fall For the task accomplished and - over all - To swallow rebuke in silence. Thus I made...
After seeing your number 4 issue of March of Time, visualizing the naval maneuvers, I am wondering how smart the naval strategists at Newport are, or how dumb...
...staff who had been working on the Jones case, telephoned Mr. Jones at his Scarsdale home, offering to sell out for $50,000. He promised to reveal how SEC was distorting figures, to show Mr. Jones how he could riddle SEC's evidence, to "play dumb" if necessary, when called as an SEC witness...