Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...degenerate into oppressive bores. Mr. Ames sees to it that the stage keeps moving. His Mikado skips over huddles of prostrate subjects. His sonorous aristocrat, Pooh-Bah, is tantalized by lively, romping girls. The color combinations change and move, too, so vividly that the performance could fascinate a deaf-mute. Be sides there is a company of actors with unusually fine voices who have understanding hearts for the blithe spirit of Gilbert & Sullivan. Manhattan holds no sightlier, more in- telligent playfulness than theirs...
...meet the "enemy," dashing fearlessly through the man-made fog. Out of the gloom rose of a sudden two ironclad monsters, the 6,000-ton cruisers Jintsu and Naka. Too late to turn, useless to reverse en- gines-into the hulking cruisers the tiny destroyers crashed with deaf- ening impact. In 15 minutes the Warabi was lying 60 fathoms beneath the surface of the sea, the captain, eleven officers and 90 men drowned. Only 22 of the crew were saved. The Ashi, which had apparently skimmed the Naka, remained afloat with a great gash in her bows. But the impact...
...British, long deaf to Nationalist complaints against their joyriding over Chinese territory, forthwith cut the railroad line between Shanghai, Hangchow and Ningpo, thus halting the Nationalist retreat from the oncoming Northern army...
...lying on the floor, exhausted, temporarily deafened by the roar of the motors. "It was just as if he were handing me an invitation to tea," said Lieutenant Noville. The paper was shown to Lieut. Bert Balchen who was piloting the plane, and to Bert Acosta who was so deaf and so miserable that he did not seem to care what happened...
...cadet at Potsdam. He is now Premier of the Turkish Republic, after fighting through the World War, repeatedly decorated by Wilhelm II for his often victorious services to the Central Powers. Today his hair is growing white, but his eyes are still a keen, steel grey; and, still deaf, he continues to play the little trick of seeming deafer than he is when that suits his purpose...