Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Equality, Ill., when Robert Micas, a deaf-mute door-to-door magazine salesman, knocked at the home of Mrs. Lucille Shaghuey, she picked up a shotgun, asked through the closed door what he wanted. "If you don't answer," she cried, "I'll shoot." Receiving no reply, she shot Deaf-Mute Micas dead...
...ceremony at Whitehall's Cenotaph. Standing bareheaded at such a service nine years ago George V caught the cold from which he never fully recovered, yet to repeated suggestions that this ceremony in the murderous November damp be given up, the Royal Family has always turned a deaf...
...these two groups there is no other course that will take the place of Music 1. And yet the University turns a deaf car to requests for better equipment and more section men. Last year Dr. Davison was informed that since the University could not afford such expenses, Music 1 would have to be limited to 125 students. This decision which would have checked the progress of the whole department and turned away distributors and concentrators alike, was too preposterous to be followed. So two hundred students are allowed to enroll this year, while about a hundred are forced...
...possibilities of income, in one form or another, from their wealthier neighbors. The loss incurred by the university community is slight, and only the possibility of a serious fire or an injured student can justify consideration of the problem on materialistic grounds; but Harvard should not be altogether deaf to its civic obligations...
...recalls it as his wife's first part as a beauty, in the role of Lady Castlemaine, remembers that they spent all their ready cash on fake jewelry to make her look more fetching. The acclaim for the new stage beauty was led by Mr. Lunt's deaf mother, Mrs. Harriet Sederholm, whose untempered voice could be heard quite plainly from the audience asking her neighbor, "Isn't she a dream...