Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prince Jaime, Alfonso's only other living son, on whom the succession would normally descend, is a hopeless deaf-mute...
After 1917 he specialized in the bloody Balkans. At Lausanne he helped make peace and in Ismet Pasha, now Premier of Turkey, he has jocularly been said to have met his match. Both deaf, they shouted back & forth across the conference table at each other in French. Ten years later Mr. Grew, one of the first career men to be promoted to an Ambassadorship, became the first U. S. Ambassador to Dictator Kemal Pasha's new Republic (TIME...
Caesar was deaf in his left ear. George III was insane. The Kaiser has a shriveled arm. Andrew Jackson had tuberculosis. Abraham Lincoln suffered from chronic constipation. None of these statements is offensive to U. S. citizens. But when John Gay mentioned the infirmity of a living President of the U. S., angry booing broke loose in the Waukesha hall. A quartet struck up a campaign song, thereby temporarily restoring order. Then Nominee Chapple rose and spoke...
...have no names on the figures," says Sculptor Milles. "The only one is Beethoven." The deaf composer, his body lean and naked, his face seamed with anguish, raises imploring hands...
...Manhattan, Rev. Dr. George Unangst Wenner celebrated the 66th anniversary of his ordination as a Lutheran pastor. White-bearded and slightly deaf at 90, Dr. Wenner is the oldest U. S. minister in point of service. In 1867, a Yale graduate and a Union Theological seminarian, he began preaching in a blacksmith shop on 14th Street. Soon he founded Christ Church on 19th Street on the far East Side. His congregation grew to 500, then dwindled with an influx of Jews and Italians. With 120 members, Christ Church today shares its building with an Italian congregation. Pastor Wenner preaches...