Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chance comes when Haas goes stone deaf. While his pension is being arranged, the railroad sends a husky young replacement (Allan Nixon) to join him and his wife in the line shack. Haas suddenly regains his hearing in the shock of an automobile accident, but before he can tell anyone his exultant news, he runs into another shock. He hears Nixon wooing his wife, and his wife egging Nixon on to murder Haas-both blandly confident that he is deaf. While he goes on feigning deafness and eavesdropping in full view of the conspirators, the movie becomes a fascinating game...
...Leverson died in 1936, deaf, but witty to the last. In addition to her dramatic criticism, she left six novels and at least one unfinished work-to be entitled (she said) The Collected Telegrams of Oscar Wilde. Her third novel, The Limit (1911), now appears in the U.S. for the first time. It is a fine example of the Leverson specialty: Edwardian laughter with an edge...
Everybody likes Sisters Mary Jeanne Madeleine and Mary Francis Terese of the Third Order of St. Francis of Assisi. At Milwaukee's Cardinal Stritch College, music students flock to them; and for the children of St. John's School for the Deaf, the day they come to teach is the high point of the week. The sisters (who are twins) can feel the smiles that greet them as they rustle into a room. But they cannot see the smiles, for they are almost totally blind...
...John's, they teach the deaf to speak. The children read their lips, and as they do the sisters use the piano to stress the inflection of words-the accent of a syllable, the rhythm of a phrase, the melody of a whole sentence. The children listen with their hands and gradually their rasping monotones begin to break into clear and normal speech...
...someone happened to be standing beside the cyclotron when a test was about to begin, "he's have to be deaf dumb, and blind not to be able to do anything about it." First the white lights would go off and red lights would begin to flash. A gong would sound, and just in case these measures were not convincing enough, the operator's voice would boom out a warning over the loud-speaker...