Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McNelis-Weir advertising agency (Manhattan), thought they should. She consulted Woolworth executives, told them of a plan: advertise in magazines, arrange with manufacturers of Woolworth-sold articles to advertise at the same time, the manufacturer to pay for the cost of their pages. Woolworthmen at first turned deaf ears, explained that Woolworth windows were their best advertisements. Miss McNelis persisted, reminded them that 1929 was Woolworth's 50th anniversary, suggested the advertisements be made to look like Woolworth windows. The executives warmed up. They accepted a campaign which culminated last April in 16 pages, some two-color, some four-color...
...Commissioner Voorhis' eyes are a little dim, his ears a little deaf, his walk a little shaky, but otherwise he is well-preserved. Strong of will, sharp of speech, he still lives in Greenwich Village, takes a ham sandwich to work with him for luncheon. He advises young men to stay out of politics, is "for the women-strong," opposes Prohibition, would like to see New York City made a separate state...
Artificial Ear. A voice speaks through earphones, a stick like a metal pencil moves by electricity between fingers that lightly hold it, shaping words. By this device, recently perfected by Western Electric and installed by Paramount in 30 seats of its Brooklyn theatre, deaf people can try to make sense of talkies...
...Georgia, Bishop W. N. Ainsworth, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, deaf to the bellowings of his diocesans, spoke out in defense of the De Priest affair: "There is no more justification for the exclusion of a black man and his wife from such a function than there is to exclude a red, yellow, brown or white one. The President and his wife do not select any of them; the constituency does. It is about time for everybody to quit seeing black only...
...dynasty, his country. By his halidom he would have a son if he had to marry and murder a half-dozen wives. Presented with the infant Elizabeth, later to be called great, he bellowed: "But Christ, this to me! To me! A daughter! I would prefer a son blind, deaf, crippled. . . . You make filth...