Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...More Grumping. On top of that, Churchill's personal position has improved in recent months. Not long ago, many Tories were grumping that the near-deaf, often crotchety and frequently high-handed old man ought to make way for someone younger. There was almost none of such talk last week. The rivalry between Butler and Foreign Secretary Eden for the succession has also served to strengthen Churchill's position in the party. (A Gallup poll last week showed Eden still the favorite over Butler, 64% to 8%, even though Eden's prestige has fallen...
...peasant's cottage, the hero hires a doctor to cure his speechless wife. The doctor does this by telling her of her husband's carryings-on with other women. When she finally speaks, she does it so abusively that the hero asks to be made deaf, and the curtain falls as he peacefully sings that deafness is the cure for all troubles...
...noticed after his first wife died that his grief gave him "new insight" into Shakespeare. Every play revealed meanings he had not suspected-and Booth, no matter how deep his private misery, was never deaf to dramatic demands. Even in his drunken days, it was said, he managed to suit his intoxication to his part: he was "melancholy-drunk for Hamlet, sentimentally drunk for Othello, and savagely drunk for Richard III." Personal tragedy began to shape all his parts-and in such a way as to suggest that he was rooting out forever the elements that had brought misery...
...Deaf Ear. In Kansas City, Mo., after trustees sought an injunction barring the Rev. Fred Bruffett from the Gospel Tabernacle on the charge that he and friends had broken in to re-elect him minister, Bruffett huffed: "I have refused to accept a call from the Gospel Tabernacle...
...Race. In warming up his audience with a description of a horse, Finney speaks slowly and distinctly, well aware that'many of the older members of the audience may be deaf and that the younger bloods, like as not, have just had four or five Martinis. Often when the bids hang after a quick runup, Finney interrupts the proceedings with a little spice. "Come on, gentlemen," he will say, "you're surely not going to let this fine horse go for only $7,500. Why, this filly is worth twice as much as the bid, just to breed...