Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this custom of yours could be broadened and diversified. As you know, undoubtedly, the President-elect is afflicted with infantile paralysis. Why not refer to him as, for instance, "The paralytic Mr. Roosevelt." And look what an opportunity you overlooked before Mr. Edison passed on. He was almost totally deaf. And, still living, is the famous deaf, dumb, and blind woman. I imagine that thousands of people that are material for your literary efforts suffer from halitosis, constipation, athlete's foot...
...Orleans, claiming a male deaf mute had slandered her in deaf & dumb language, a female deaf mute shot him through the arm with a .44 pistol...
Sixteen years ago President Wilson thought he was as good as defeated by Charles Evans Hughes in an election which seemed to mean War or Peace. Democratic clamor against a change of White House leadership seemed to be falling on deaf ears. Pundit Lippmann's bit of history...
President Hoover was reluctant to accept their advice and change his tactics. He hates campaigning and crowds. Besides, he thinks it would be undignified to get out and hump himself for office like any ordinary politician. Deaf to suggestions for an extended campaign the President finally consented to make three October speeches ,two in the Midwest. one in the East. Beyond that he would not go, even for another four years in the White House...
...withdrew their deposits from National City's Osaka branch, mobs milled around its doors. branch officials received threatening letters and placards proclaimed: "Patriotic Japanese employes of this spying Ameri can bank must walk out in a body!" The new U. S. Ambassador to Japan is alert, athletic, slightly deaf Josef Clark Grew, kinsman of John Pierpont Morgan, whose last post was Turkey. Mr. Grew stood for no nonsense in Tokyo. Laconically he cabled to the State Department : "The recent affair of the Osaka branch of the National City Bank of New York which is subjected to a charge...