Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Granville Bantock, bearded, British, 73-year-old composer, laid hands on a sacred* song: the Internationale. Sir Granville thought the Internationale needed "more movement," made a few slight changes. To make the song more suitable "for English choirs and for people to sing," Sir Granville's elderly, deaf wife, Lady Helen, wrote new words. Instead of Arise, ye starvelings from your slumbers; Arise, ye criminals of want (Russia's official English translation), Lady Helen's verses began Awake, O sleepers from your dreaming; Uplift, uplift your longing eyes...
...grads by recalling their seat numbers and their grades in his courses. He paid no attention to the college rule allowing students on the "dean's list" unlimited cuts; rule or no rule, absentees from his classes got zero. He was not at all disturbed by being deaf. Said he: "You don't hear so damned much twaddle...
...Slight, deaf, intense Bishop Barry knows his wars. A winner of the D.S.O. for heroism as a chaplain in World War I, he has since served as Archdeacon of Egypt, Chaplain to the King, Canon of Westminster, and Vicar of the University Church at Oxford, which he packed with undergraduates as it had never been packed before-even by John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman. No stuffed shirt, he lists his recreations in Who's Who as "indescribable...
Turkey. To pious, fatalistic President Ismet Inönü of Turkey, the U.S. entry into war has brought added unease. Having repeated that Turkey was neutral, partially deaf Ismet Inönü expediently turned his bad ear to German protests that his acceptance of Lend-Lease aid was unneutral. But he could hear clearly enough reports from Turkey's Bulgarian border that Germany was increasing her gasoline stocks and working feverishly on air bases in Bulgaria. Turkey awaited her Kismet (fate) and wondered about rumors that Chief of Staff General Fevzi Cakmak was partial to the Axis...
...club song of London's 18th Century Anacreontic Society. Called To Anacrcon in Heaven, it was written by John Stafford Smith, the society's organist. Author Francis Scott Key. although believed to be tone-deaf, was apparently familiar with the original song. Congress, tone-deaf to such entreaties as the tune's unsingability as well as its convivial origins, made the anthem official...