Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Mrs. William B. Weeden, 88, first deaf child in the U. S. to be taught to speak and read lips; in Providence, R. I. Daughter of Governor Henry Lippitt, she was stricken at four after an attack of scarlet fever, had Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and Educator Horace Mann to teach...
Long-distance autopsies are risky. French Scholar Denis Saurat enraged the high-minded by "demonstrating" that blind John Milton (like deaf Ludwig van Beethoven) suffered from hereditary syphilis. Diagnostician Moorman finds Milton tuberculous. Other famous consumptives: Pope, Dr. Johnson, Shelley, Goethe, Schiller, Descartes, Balzac, Rousseau, Spinoza, Kant, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Chekhov, Dostoevski, a brow-wrinkling list of other writers and thinkers. Doctors suspect that tuberculosis develops genius because 1) apprehension of death inspires a burning awareness of life's beauty, significance, transience, 2) the bacillus breeds restlessness and an intoxicated hypersensitiveness...
This should be neither bar nor safeguard to most young men: conscripts can be blind in one eye, partially deaf in both ears, minus one big toe or two little ones, and still be technically eligible...
Past Precedent. When Napoleon took the first step in his intended occupation of New Orleans, President Jefferson wrote in alarm to the U.S. Minister in Paris, Robert Livingston: "From that moment we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation." The marriage was postponed. Livingston, pertinacious, deaf, scholarly, distant relative of Franklin Roosevelt's wife, and James Monroe, whom Jefferson sent to France with instruction to do what he could to discourage Napoleon's ambitions in the New World, returned with news of an amazing bargain they had made. It ended for all time the danger...
...what seemed like a reply by Franklin Roosevelt: ". . . We shall hold steadfastly to every advance gained and not permit present safeguards to be whittled away by yielding to the specious arguments of those whose lip service to labor is loud and eloquent before election, but whose ears are deaf to all appeals to justice the rest of the time...