Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then at low ebb, upon the death of Eugene du Pont in 1902. After increasing its assets from $15,000,000 to $82,000,000. he was ousted by his cousins Pierre Irénée and Lammot du Pont, with whom he maintained a bitter feud. Irascible, deaf, blind in one eye, he moved to Florida in 1926, became, as a banker, one of its financial saviors...
...drawn out of a long succession of pupils whatever native gifts they had for writing in the English language and of appreciating what has been written in English. That is his magic. The conviction that but for their luck in having known him, they would be more deaf and more dumb than they are, that in truth he has helped them to live, is the reason why he is the object of a cult in which there is such fervor, such affection and such gratitude...
...objects of the instruction--the undergraduates. But these courses are the exception. Not merely then, are the freshmen justified in criticizing these courses, but further they and the upper classmen should be encouraged to shout a protest against this ridiculous attitude so loud that it would reach even the deaf ears of the scientific bigwigs...
...dying, the thunderbolt of Hell, and the malediction of God and man. We shall call for the same injuries upon those who at the coming elections shall vote for the Traitor Venizelos, and we shall further pray for their hands to wither and for them to become deaf and blind...
Married. Don Jaime, 26, second son of ex-King Alfonso XIII of Spain; and Emanuela de Dampierre. 20, granddaughter of Princess Ruspoli Poggio di Suasa, (née Josephine Curtis of Boston); in Rome. Born a deaf-mute, Don Jaime has learned to speak croakingly...