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Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals - Boing Boing 2009

This is a way of saying that the Marx Brothers are written characters, while the Stooges are mostly dumbshow and clowning.

Lance Mannion: 2009

So good luck with that, Rupert. have a delightful, Howard-Hughesian dotage, acting out a crazed, Moby-Dick dumbshow against the Internet, hoping that the world's politics and economies will reform themselves to suit your fevered imaginings.

Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals - Boing Boing 2009

This is a way of saying that the Marx Brothers are written characters, while the Stooges are mostly dumbshow and clowning.

Knuckleheads and wiseguys 2009

Because Peake's script presents a Creature who never speaks, Cooke was hard pressed, having to make do with elaborate pantomime and dumbshow in his portrayal.

Cast and Characters 2008

Security is a nightmare, a two-hour kabuki dumbshow that only serves to inspire ideas about how easy it would be to outwit them.

smarte carte 2006

Security is a nightmare, a two-hour kabuki dumbshow that only serves to inspire ideas about how easy it would be to outwit them.

deadhead sticker on a cadillac 2006

Sharpe, lacking those landmarks, supposed there was still further to go, that they yet had to drop down into the ravine, but the blacksmith checked under the trees and, in dumbshow, indicated that the city lay to their left.

Sharpe's Rifles Cornwell, Bernard 1988

In Act I he stages first an allegorical masque, the chief theme of which is prudent distinction between tangible and intangible wealth or values, then a stately dumbshow of the Rape of Helen at which he himself confuses

Dictionary of the History of Ideas STUART ATKINS 1968

Paine's part in the public sittings of the Convention must have been generally limited to eloquent silence or expressive dumbshow.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various