Word: abbe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week at Buffalo 2,000 members of the National Association of the Deaf met to unveil a bronze and marble statue of Charles-Michel, Abbé de 1'Epée (1712-89), the man who codified the existing hand signs of his day, invented new ones and created the first intelligible means of communication for the deaf. He was a Roman Catholic priest, canon of the Cathedral of Troyes, son of Louis XIV's architect...
...church deprived him of his ecclesiastical functions because he was a Pansenist.* The Abbé developed his sign system in order to teach his two deaf sisters to communicate. His finger alphabet is still in use. Eugene E. Hannan, deaf sculptor of the Buffalo statue, reproduced the Epée alphabet on to the statue's base. Modeling the expressive fists was the hardest part of his work, said he last week. The statue itself represents the Abbe studying his clenched right hand for its possibilities in signs...
Soon it appeared that only small fry have been jailed. Still at liberty in Colmar is that master mind of pro-German plotters in Alsace, the notorious Abbé Haegy. A tall, ascetic priest, with cold eyes, thin lips and eloquently gesturing hands, he was busy last week personally editing his pro-German newspaper, while several members of its staff languish in jail...
Typically the chief pro-German plotters in Alsace-Lorraine are led by Roman Catholic priests like the Abbé Haegy. Reason: the Imperial German Government deliberately founded and fostered Catholic schools throughout Alsace in which youths were carefully trained up in zeal for Rome and Germany and in detestation of France which has disestablished the Roman Catholic Church...
...presidential election with lowered taxes as one of the campaign cries. But so evenly is Congress divided, and so unreliable (as party men) are several Republicans in the upper house, that Democrats can at least hamper the passage of a Republican tax bill, even if they may not be abb to pass one of their own. Political prophets look forward to a long-financial wrangle when Congress meets again...