Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank is a young bum who has done time for vagrancy and assault but works when he has to, gambles when he can, is still more of a smart hobo than a dumb crook. At a California lunchstand and filling station he panhandles the Greek proprietor for a meal, changes his mind about moving on when he sees the Greek's wife, Cora. The Greek offers him a job. He takes it and in 24 hours Cora too. She hates her husband but has too much sense to run away with Frank. Instead, she suggests they murder the Greek...
Captain Paul deB deGive '34, of the Varsity hockey sextet, was literally struck dumb by the force of a shot in a practice session on Tuesday, and is now convalescing from severe lacerations. The speeding puck caught deGive with his tongue drooping out of his month and succeeded in nearly severing it. Several stitches were needed to restore deGive's tongue to its former glory, but it is expected that he will still be able to pep up the team with chatter in the games. The only difficulty is in swallowing, and he has been put on an egg-nogg...
...stage design, not a history of the drama. The work of all the best known U. S. designers was represented but, more often than not, settings for their best known plays were lacking. People looked in vain for Robert Edmond Jones's The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife, The Jest, Mourning Becomes Electra; for Bel Geddes' Miracle or Lysistrata; for Jo Mielziner's Street Scene...
...have just read of the book you seven wise men have concocted; and what I hear of it is enough without reading the book. It sounds like New England, and it sounds like a lot of professors, proving how very dumb they can be. In your opinion, I presume, Mr. Hoover was right in letting Prosperity remain just around the corner, and that nothing should have been done about it. If all seven of you had brain fever (which none of you will ever have,) I suppose the proper thing to do would be to let you get over...
...robed judges of the German Supreme Court started violently and some half rose from their chairs. Without warning the Dutch Sphinx of the Reichstag Fire Trial, ox-dumb Marinus van der Lubbe who has sat as though drugged or stupefied for weeks on end, suddenly leaped to his feet, clear-eyed and bubbling with protests which he hurled at Presiding Judge Dr. Wilhelm Bünger...