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Word: dummkopf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stock Exchange bar. the New York cafe.) Smart Girl was previewed six times before its official Hollywood unveiling in an effort to decide whether Pinky Tomlin ought to sing or not. Finally his song was removed but his jackass laughter and owlish solemnity as the milliner's Dummkopf of a son were left in with happy results. He is in real life an Oklahoma crooner who arrived in Hollywood five months ago with $100 in his pocket, half of which he gave to the orchestra leader in the Biltmore Bowl to let him sing his song. The Object...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 5, 1935 | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

...bull-necked Nazi General Hermann Wilhelm Göring. After grilling perspiring "Auwi," whom he scared half to death, General Göring kicked him out of the Nazi Party and out of the Storm Troops in which he had been a group commander with the stinging words: "Dummkopf! dunderhead! you are too stupid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Crux of Crisis | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

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