Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such a man intrigues Vag. Everyone knows that he went deaf before he was thirty and still composed some of the most superlative music of all time. But few know that, in his early life, he was superbly egotistic. From his great teacher, Haydn, he insisted that he learned nothing. He made enemies because of his overbearing manner as fast as he made friends with his music; he disdained to hear Mozart's operas "lest I forfeit some of my originality." "I want none of your moral (precepts)," he once wrote, "for Power is the morality of men who loom...
Boston's distinguished elite, including ex-Governor James M. Curley, last night noisily applauded (and noisily repeated jokes to deaf companions) as John Holden presented Gertrude Lawrence in the gay, smooth-running comedy "Susan and God" at the Shubert Theatre...
Throughout the debate Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet sat unmoved. Earlier in Geneva, he had turned a deaf ear, to pleadings for help from Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo, of the Loyalist Government. As the lengthy debate neared its end, M. Bonnet was expected to play his trump card: an assurance by Dictator Mussolini, given to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in Rome fortnight ago, that as soon as Generalissimo Franco won the war, Italian troops would leave Spain. Since Il Duce has often found it convenient to forget his solemn pledges, this argument was not calculated to impress...
Estimating a total potential U. S. reading public of 107,300,000 persons over nine years old, excluding the blind, deaf-mutes and inmates of institutions, LIFE's experts made 8,030 interviews to appraise the number of people who see, open and read some part of an average issue of Collier's, Liberty, LIFE, Satevepost, found that 14.8% were Collier's audience, 13% Liberty's 16.1% LIFE's and 12% Satevepost's. These net percentages were established after 5,700 more interviews eliminated exaggerators and nitwits through "confusion control" tests. When the final...
Last week Addie Belle and Annabelle were separated for the first time. Assistant Professor of Phonetics Marie Katherine Mason of Ohio State examined Addie Belle and reported that she now had a serious hearing impairment, was almost deaf. She had suffered so long from hysteria which had deprived her of her voice that the condition was now chronic* and there was small chance she would ever leave her solitary world and participate in normal social life...