Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number of students paraded through the dining hall with an effigy of "Adolph Hurttler, Unser Fushrer" on their shoulders. Several of the men carried signs such as "Kirkland Kentzentration Kampf--Adolph Hurtt, Prop.," "Hire Only Deaf-Mutes," "The Kirkland Gestapo Dictates the Law (the Sanctimonious Sycophants!)" and "Vexation Without Representation...
...tone deaf, I don't see why I read your Music section anyway...
Shortly before Recorder Mapleson died, in 1937, a deaf but diligent phonographic antiquarian named William H. Seltsam got permission to go through the Mapleson records. There, Collector Seltsam found not only peeping vocal relics of such golden-agers as Emma Eames, Johanna Gadski, Marcella Sembrich, but 16 records of the otherwise unrecorded* Jean de Reszke. Thrilled Phonographer Seltsam started raising money to re-record Mapleson's de Reszke samples on modern discs...