Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Still deaf to his own exhortations about the joy and duty of begetting is Adolf Hitler. Last week, however, the bachelor Realmleader did the handsome thing by German spouses...
Lacking personal appeal or popularity, Acting Governor Merriam has been a trial to Richard W. Barrett, his northern California campaign manager. Under the direction of this San Francisco attorney, Acting Governor Merriam has been taken to football matches, photographed talking to deaf mutes through an interpreter. And last week at Los Angeles he made his first campaign speech, lifting a phrase from the first citizen of Palo Alto: "Human misery should not be made a laboratory for experimentation by even the most well-meaning of theorists...
...benefit of those who have allowed the first three installment of the story of Abner, the model candidate to fall on deaf ears, let us remind you that tonight, at 7.30 o'clock in the CRIMSON building at 14 Plympton Street, the first competition of this fall opens to members of the Sophomore and Junior classes. More explicitly, the Editorial competition is open to Juniors and the portals of the other three departments will be thrown open to ambitious members of the Class...
...music-loving Hungarian steward to a princely house, Franz Liszt was an infant prodigy. When he was 11, deaf old Beethoven is reported to have kissed him for his playing. Liszt's father took him to Paris, where he studied, gave public and private concerts, astounded all comers. He was fair, good-looking, wore long hair. Father Liszt knew what he was talking about when he said: "With you, it is women I am afraid...
Biggest educational advance reported at the convention was the opening of Montana School for the Deaf and Blind at Great Falls. Biggest educational problem was what to do about the sign language. Some educators of the deaf (called "oralists") are currently trying to discourage its use. They favor lipreading, say the use of sign language leads children to invent undesirable word pictures, hinders their learning the English language. Sign language adherents say that lipreading is an art which not all can master...