Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advertisement is cleverly worded but it claims too much. My acquaintance with people having "the poorest of ears" runs into the thousands, not one of whom has been helped by the "aid" advertised. Some 1,500 children with hearing more or less defective attend the schools for the deaf in various parts of the country?several being located in and near New York. There are 50,000 graduates and former pupils of these schools living in this country who would know of the aid if it was worth what is claimed for it. The vendors of the "aid" could...
Church Mission to the Deaf, St. Louis...
...proprietor of the puppet show, an Italian with a heart as big as an ox, and perhaps a head of the same quality, marries an elfin, wistful sprite of a wife a few minutes before charging off to war. On his return, he is deaf from the conflict, enabling his wife to carry on her languishing conversations with her ad interim lover...
...howling against the stupidity of American life and society is so constant that the somewhat nebulous "average man" soon grows deaf to it. But occasionally there occurs an event which not only justifies complaint, but which makes the present outcry appear to be the mildest of protests. Such is the history of the New Hampshire bill to prohibit the sale of cosmetics...
...deaf Shah...