Degrees of Dumbness
PH.D. –(Phenomenally Dumb.)
Telephone operators—Admirers of banana songs— . . . Mulish husbands—Sentimental wives—Trolley-car conductors—Automobilists who drive in front of moving trains—Patrons of fortune-tellers.
D.D.—(Decidedly Dumb.)
Movie stars—Bathers who wear diamonds into the water—Graduates of fashionable finishing schools . . . audible readers of movie captions . . . –Men who believe everything a woman says—Women who believe everything a man says.
M.D.—(Moderately Dumb.)
Scenario writers—Plumbers—Vaudeville actors—Café waitresses—Hummers of tunes at musical plays . . . Cake eaters.
LL.D.—(Lacking Literal Dumbness.)
Prohibition officers—Sheiks—Professional ballroom dancers—Lounge lizards—Jazz hounds—Absent minded dinner partners—Professional beauties—Movie audiences.
[Harvey Peake, “Degrees of Dumbness,” Life, December 13, 1923, p.4.]:
Telephone operators—Admirers of banana songs— . . . Mulish husbands—Sentimental wives—Trolley-car conductors—Automobilists who drive in front of moving trains—Patrons of fortune-tellers.
D.D.—(Decidedly Dumb.)
Movie stars—Bathers who wear diamonds into the water—Graduates of fashionable finishing schools . . . audible readers of movie captions . . . –Men who believe everything a woman says—Women who believe everything a man says.
M.D.—(Moderately Dumb.)
Scenario writers—Plumbers—Vaudeville actors—Café waitresses—Hummers of tunes at musical plays . . . Cake eaters.
LL.D.—(Lacking Literal Dumbness.)
Prohibition officers—Sheiks—Professional ballroom dancers—Lounge lizards—Jazz hounds—Absent minded dinner partners—Professional beauties—Movie audiences.
[Harvey Peake, “Degrees of Dumbness,” Life, December 13, 1923, p.4.]:
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