Word: guess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Livingston of Spencer, Iowa, to debate issues at Des Moines, where he was scheduled to speak on Nov. 1. Farmer Livingston was the man who heckled Nominee Curtis during his speech at Spencer, Iowa, in September; the man to whom Nominee Curtis finally and dangerously retorted: "I guess you're too damn dumb to understand." Farmer Livingston requested a public apology...
...episode referred to by the Edmund Duffy caricature was when Nominee Curtis was heckled at Spencer, Iowa (TIME, Oct. 1). The quotation as given by Duffy is inaccurate. Nominee Curtis, vexed by questions about something he had already explained, cried: "I guess you are too dumb to understand...
...Curtis: "Yes, and on the lower brackets. ... I guess you are too dumb to understand...
...Paroles, has discovered evidence of the fact that the young men are already profiting by their position to enjoy prison life in the greatest comfort. One may wonder at the prosecuting attorney who was so active in their prosecution making such a careless mistake; one may hazard a guess as to the action six years from now of the Parole Board that promised not to release them; and the only answer seems to be the one immortalized on such occasions by Barnum...
...would be the last person in the world to say this? One guess might be President Calvin Coolidge, or some other man who is given to few words and less speculation, and who professes an earnest belief in Divine Providence...