Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Linguist. In Detroit, charged with begging, Fred Johnson handed notes to police explaining that he was a deaf mute, but when the judge irritably asked him if he could talk, he proudly replied: "I can speak English, Spanish, German and a little French," got 60 days in jail...
...wedding reception in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, Helen Keller, 73, who, though sightless and deaf since infancy, has long had a desire to dance, finally tried it. cut a commendable figure with an old friend, Chicago Attorney A. R. Peterson...
...Confession of me, the Lady Mary" (as this surrender was entitled) was destined "to mark Mary for life." She had been "false to her mother and her mother's Church." writes Biographer Prescott. "In every crisis . . . afterwards she remembered it, and . . . made her decision . . . regardless of wisdom, deaf to argument . . . not daring to compromise because once in her life she had known what was right, and had not done...
Frederika organized and personally supervised every detail of The Queen's Fund, a vast charity whose original object was to find food and shelter for the thousands of homeless children wandering lost in her land. Her impassioned pleas for her pet causes seldom fell on deaf ears. "If you could have a vote taken at this minute," said Wisconsin's Senator Wiley after hearing Frederika talk at dinner one night, "you would get the American aid to Greece doubled...
...York runs a special school for young narcotic addicts on the East River's North Brother Island, and diligently instructs them in academic subjects while they take the cure. It holds special classes for 93 blind children, 384 deaf children, 3,613 youngsters with heart trouble and other enervating ailments. 7,391 children of deeply retarded mental development. It runs a whole series of schools for young delinquents...