Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such championship of mere pleasure for its own sake would have cost any Communist his treasured Party membership last spring. But Josef Stalin, shrewdest of shrewd Dictators, has sensed that millions of Russians are sick of his laborious Five-Year-Plan, deaf to exhortations and are increasingly hungry. Let them laugh then and be cheered...
...Author. Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, born, raised and resident in Richmond, Va., hotbed of Southern tradition, decided she would not be a romantic, sentimental Southern belle-lettriste. She announced: ''What the South needs now is?blood and irony." Plump, lively, slightly deaf, she finds life agreeable and amusing. Though she thought she could die of happiness if her first book was accepted, after her 17th was published she remarked: "I've never been happy and have not died." Authoress Glasgow lives in an old house in the heart of Richmond at No. i West Main Street, entertains there her friends...
...garden party at Buckingham Palace Queen Mary espied famed Helen Adams Keller, blind & deaf leader, asked that she be presented. Through Miss Keller's companion, who tapped the message into her palm, Her Majesty said: "I am so glad you were able to come to our party. . . ." In the August Atlantic Monthly Author Keller poked fun at Big Business by picturing a tycoon in complete charge of his household. The tycoon begins by baking ten cakes at once rather than let oven-heat go to waste, then coaxes his children to eat more than is good for them...
...South Africa local statesmen enjoy vexing the Bank of England by keeping their local pounds & shillings on the gold standard. Patriotic appeals from London, urging South Africa to follow the Mother Country off gold, have fallen on deaf Afrikander ears. "While I remain Premier," has declared militant, Dutch-blooded South African Premier James Barry Munnik Hertzog, "we shall remain on gold...
Helen Adams Keller, U. S. deaf & blind leader LL.D...