Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news: Madrid reported that Mario, son of the late, best-selling Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse), had been sentenced to twelve years in prison on a charge of having once been a Mason. He might get a commutation: he is paralyzed, deaf and nearly blind...
...Nuisances. Whatever the differences of the Big Three, says Nicolson, their peacemaking would have been easier if the major powers alone were involved. Inevitable "nuisances,and . . . eccentrics" were present at the Congress of Vienna. Prussian Delegate Prince Hardenburg was stone-deaf. Spanish Delegate Don Pedro Gomez Labrador spent his time mimicking French Delegate Talleyrand. Thirty-two minor German royalties attended-and brought their wives, mistresses and secretaries of state...
Judgment. In Manhattan, Thomas Spurlock posed as a deaf-mute, handed cards to passers-by asking for help, got a nickel from one, growled: "Cheapskate," got 60 days...
...Enables deaf persons to hear perfectly...
Brooklyn's chief librarian had had enough. Last week Dr. Milton James Ferguson announced that henceforth Brooklyn libraries would turn deaf ears to telephoned quiz queries from radio fans...