Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Deaf and Dumb Clubs of real deaf and dumb people for the purpose of getting deaf and dumb people* to vote for Calvin Coolidge on Nov. 4. was an idea brought forth last week by Republican campaign managers, genesis of the idea was the fact that, before her marriage, Grace Goodhue was a teacher of deaf and dumb pupils in a deaf and dumb school...
...President wrote to the Women's Church Committee on International Good Will, which is sending a Christmas ship to Germany: "The appeal of little children is worldwide, and America has never turned a deaf ear, whether the cry came from Armenia or from the devasted regions of France, from Rumania or from the Far East. Such charity is, I believe, one aspect of the good-will of America to all nations, of our desire to promote durable peace through mutual understanding...
...this empty noise Chancellor Marx turned a deaf ear and remained mute. It was learned, however, that either he or his henchman, Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, would go to London if invited by the Powers assembled there. An attempt by the Parties of the Right to move a resolution of no confidence in the Government was defeated by 172 to 62 votes...
...fancy is sometimes caught by those who are most vociferous and at the same time most radically wrong. There are too many who listen to these voices and try the impossible contortion of keeping both ears to the ground and listening to notes to which their ears should be deaf. What is most needed in legislative halls and elsewhere is courage to withstand the sudden spasms which are created by groundless rumor or injudicious agitation. Candidates for office often fail to realize how much the people respect courage and common honesty...
...young Italian who had been deaf for several months smiled and heard. An old man threw away his cane. "I haven't walked in many years," said he. Dr. Bell, graduate of Toronto University, said he had cured 5,000 people between Denver and New York...