Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theme is "Protect sweet little mountain lions" and "Only man is vile." Children and dumb adults are supposed to rejoice when the lion mutilates a human and causes his death...
...social structure of the U. S., no individual citizen has yet felt personally & sufficiently aggrieved to organize an anti-Townsend club. Most thinking citizens have ignored the Plan, or dismissed it as too remote or fantastic to be worth worrying about. Congressmen, who know better, have been struck publicly dumb by the hundreds and thousands of letters, telegrams, petitions pouring into their offices. Even President Roosevelt has so far dared to condemn the Plan only by inference when, on the subject of old age pensions, he told the Conference on Social Security in Washington: "Organizations promoting fantastic schemes have aroused...
Never sufficiently publicized to suit themselves, cinema celebrities will stop at nothing to get their pictures into the papers. They will, even as two cinemactresses did within the fortnight, molest dumb animals of great value, at the risk of being arrested...
...year-old squabble between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Gran Chaco must end some day. Last week it looked as if Paraguay, with one-third the population, one-eighth the area and one-twelfth the wealth of big Bolivia, had a chance to win. A combination of dumb Bolivian politics and smart Paraguayan tactics had lured Bolivia into making a terrible mistake...
...Brooklyn, N. Y. moans from a dumb-waiter stuck in its shaft brought a call for police at 4 a. m. For one hour 27 men sweated & strained, finally got the moaning dumb-waiter to the roof. Out flopped Ford Jensen, 6 ft. 3 in. Explained Ford Jensen: "I just went for a ride...