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Other Washington women fancied themselves in the following rôles: Mrs. Cordell Hull, a gypsy; Mrs. Homer Cummings, a Spanish matron; Mrs. Claude Swanson, a Dutch girl; Madam Secretary Perkins, a braintruster (cap & gown); Mrs. Donald Richberg, "The Mystery of the New Deal'' (an alphabet-spangled dress); Mrs. Henry Wallace, a Yugoslav peasant; Mrs. Daniel Roper, a court lady of the Second Empire; Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr., a court lady of the 18th Century; Mrs. George Dern, one of the wives of Brigham Young; Anna Roosevelt Dall, The Devil...
...York, psychologists reported the discovery of a 7-year-old boy with an intelligence quotient of 196, nine less than Einstein's, ten more than Darwin's. At the age of 18 mo. the prodigy, referred to only as "K," could converse fluently. At 20 mo., he knew the alphabet. Taken to the psychologist, K discussed the economics of the sales tax, explained how, given a 3-qt. and a 5-qt. pail, he could draw 7 qt. of water, asked his examiners whether they preferred his signature "printed or cursive." K reads on the average a book...
...mentions several methods of dealing with dyslexia cases which have been used with moderate success. Among them is the system employed by Hinshelwood, an English physician, who first dealt with a number of these cases by resorting to the discarded alphabet method of learning to read by spelling out the words orally. This, Dr. Dearborn says, at least guaranteed the right direction of eye movements and their correlation with a sequence of letter sounds. For older children, typewriting has been utilized. This has the merit of being a bi-manual activity, and is thus suited to the ambi-dextrous...
...Roosevelt and Governor Lehman were spoken for the audience (hearers), wigwagged for the "optience" (seers). Senator Copeland and Mayor LaGuardia had the novel experience of addressing a crowd which neither heard nor heeded them but kept its eyes glued on a man who gave a running interpretation in manual alphabet-sign language...
...their war over the Holy Ghost; the hit-or-miss conversations between a visiting Englishman and the squire's sister (carried on largely, out of politeness to the guest's linguistic shortcomings, in peasant profanity). In a rousingly successful benefit concert the final number was an extempore alphabet duet by the two drunken principals: "Com-ing to the letter Q, Vendt began to show signs of emotion; his mood was contagious and even the druggist was soon deeply touched. At the back of the house their audience was moaning with laughter. The singers were giving of their best...