Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eventually he reached his week's goal- Inventor Thomas Alva Edison's 80th birthday party at West Orange, N. J. Mr. Ford, genial, amiable, yelled newspapermen's questions into Mr. Edison's ear. Mr. Edison is quite deaf. Harvey S. Firestone, Akron rubberman, watched...
...Coolidge- received the graduating class of Public School No. 47 of New York City. They were deaf. She talked to them in sign-language which she had learned when she taught in a school for deaf-mutes at Northampton, Mass...
...sees a frustrated dream realized when the frail six-year-old plays from memory, with never a lesson, an entire lengthy concerto. The child is taught at home, overworks to the verge of death but survives to take his virtuosity, the marvel of that countryside, to Vienna. Beethoven, old, deaf, impoverished, whose portrait presides over the Liszt piano at home, consecrates the spindly little acolyte with a kiss...
...surprised if strange things happen to you. You'll probably give your seat to a lady on the way home, and go out for fencing the next day. And if you don't hum "Lantern of Love" all through your Chem. 2 exam the next day, you are either deaf or hard-boiled...
...quantities one may assume that the public is interested only in that slander which has claim to authenticity. On the other hand if the returns are small the indication will be that human nature considers a whispering gallery to be an instructive body even though, its members be blind, deaf, and as far as real facts are concerned--dumb...