Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could see at first only that they were expected to receive the Yanqui* who was Secretary of the Navy when it bombarded Veracruz in 1914. Ambassador Daniels was called a "living insult" to Mexico-last year. Today the politicos of Mexico City can scarcely believe they ever were so dumb...
...Cards, but even gets the murderer with a well-aimed ball. Nat Pendleton and Ted Healey make a pretty good comedy team as catcher and umpire respectively, and there is also the movies' idea of the wise young reporter who solves the mystery as well as the stereotyped dumb detective...
Another reason given for the change was the "Handsome Dan Kidnapping Scandal" of last Winter. The transfer is question found it impossible to tolerate the cruelty to a dumb animal which was exhibited at that childish raid on the defenseless Eli mascot...
...Dumb, quivering agony for the horse? dumb, quivering frustration for the lion. Such is the price of the circus act in which a lion leaps from its perch to a horse's back, rides around the ring. A lion dearly loves warm horseflesh and of all living creatures a horse most fears a lion...
...WMAQ, Chicago, on the night of March 28, 1928, the nation first heard the radio blackface comic strip team of Amos and Andy. Amos (Freeman F. Gosden), the patient and long-suffering one, was discovered plaintively complaining about having to do all the work on their Georgia farm while dumb, blustering Andy (Charles J. Correll) loafed under a shade tree. Amos and Andy soon went north to Chicago to find work...