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Word: dumbness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your come-back to A. C. Whitaker's letter (TIME, Dec. 4) "Saliva is saliva, distilled or not-ED." is the most inept and unsnappy that I can recall. In fact I might say it was positively dumb. What Mr. Whitaker tried to tell you in a nice way was that the moisture that accumulates in musicians' wind instruments was not spit but actual water, and he was right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Kurt George Wilhelm Ludecke, onetime friend and subordinate of Adolf Hitler, had his application for U. S. citizenship turned down in a Detroit court, pending a future hearing. Reason: The judge had read Ludecke's I Knew Hitler, declared Author Ludecke "a cheap politician . . . dumb as an oyster in the shell . . . anti-everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...eight long years, since Japan first invaded Manchuria, the League of Nations was progressively more paralyzed and dumb," Browder said in discussing the League's expulsion of Soviet Russia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWDER'S SPEECH CAUSES NO STIR IN AUDIENCE AT TECH | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

Good shot: delightfully dumb Mechanic Maxie ("Slapsie") Rosenbloom fingering his baby shoes, murmuring: "I musta been a good baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Quotable Senators were less spicy but just as sore. Said Senator Norris: "I've been in Congress 36 years but I've never seen a Member as dumb as that boy. . . . The movies had a chance to do a good job, but they have given the public only a false, absurd impression." Senator Pepper: "I saw my first professional football game last Sunday." Senator Lodge: "Ridiculous. Just something from Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mr. Smith Riles Washington | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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