Word: ans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A young male secretary proposed marriage with an ardor little diminished by the need to phrase it manually or in braille type. He later caused Miss Keller to reflect: "Love makes us blind."
Basso Feodor Chaliapin boomed a Russian folksong at her with an arm around her so that she could feel his "vibrations."
Miss Keller, regretting her useless ears more than her useless eyes, informed Thomas Edison (himself deaf): "If I were a great inventor like you, Mr. Edison, I would invent an instrument that would enable every deaf person to hear." "Oh you would, would you?" said he. "Well. I think it...
The best Keller anecdotes concern Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), her close friend. Clemens and Humorist Finley Peter Dunne were discussing Miss Keller when Dunne exclaimed: "God, how dull it must be for her. every day the same and every night the same as the day!" Said Clemens: "You're damned...
Andrew Carnegie once threatened to take Miss Keller over his knees and spank her soundly for being the fervent Socialist and birth-controller she still is. He then settled an annuity on her for life and told her that all pessimists had poisoned tongues and should be sent to Siberia...