Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...struck dumb on hearing the sentence in the naval case. . . . You know the sentence imposed on Sagoya for shooting Hamaguchi...
...performance did Nijinsky appear to see through the fog. Serge Lifar, a young protégé of Diaghilev, started to dance Le Spectre de la Rose in which Nijinsky did his never-to-be-forgotten leap through an open window. When the music started Nijinsky's dead, dumb eyes suddenly brightened. He turned to his wife and said, "Can he jump?"* Partly because of this episode, partly because Lifar, now ballet master at the Paris Opera, does many of Nijinsky's roles, the saying has gone around that the 28-year-old Russian "now wears Nijinsky...
...wife and son both saw it and stood dumb with amazement; then to our horror the thing rushed up to a high rock and thrust its great head and neck a full ten feet out of the water and waved it about as if it were getting its bearings. It was some 500 yards away and I could not see the exact shape of its head, but it was much thicker than the body. Then it sank down into the water again and sped away, making a great wash of white foam...
...Harvard. This same aversion, in another sphere, caused the radical change in the admissions to the Houses last year. Harvard is not willing to accept the principle, "many are called and few chosen." Outside of History 1 it is not willing to separate the honors students from "the dumb bunnies," the scholars from the social lions and athletes. Thus it will not become an institution for training intellectuals. It insists on catering to the masses; it hopes to convert them; and it will maintain the present mark system as long as it is the only one which permits the traditional...
Crucible (by D. Hubert Connelly, produced by Huban Plays, Inc.), a drama about some denizens of Manhattan's Tombs Detention Prison, opened the night after three young prisoners had escaped from the Tombs, up a secret dumb-waiter shaft, down a rope of prison bedsheets bound with bedspring wire, in the Tombs' first important jailbreak since 1926. Hoist by this factitious timeliness, Crucible turned out to be a hoarse and inexpert melodrama. Plot: a philanthropist and onetime gambler takes an interest in the girl's painting, offers the boy a job. Audi- ences soon become aware...