Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another witness for the prosecution was a deaf mute who by finger twitches testified he had seen the four attackers carry Franklin toward a big log fire. The State, contending that Franklin was burned alive, exhibited as the corpus delicti a boxful of charred bones. Because a temple bone had inadvertently been mislaid a State health officer would not swear that the remains were human. The live "Connie Franklin" said that on the night of the "murder" he had started out with Tiller. He explained: "I fell off my mule-had a few too many swigs-and cut my haid...
...paper across which was scrawled "For God's sake, give them what they want," followed by Warden Jennings' signature. The priest's advent was an accident, not to be considered, an irrelevant, frantic voice, begging them to think, to undo what they had done. His words fell on the deaf faces like a flurry of wind on stone...
Died. Francis P. Gibson, proofreader, of Evanston, Ill., founder-president of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf (insurance organization); in Chicago; after an operation for gallstones. To a deaf audience of some 1,500 people, a deaf minister preached a sermon with his hands while his daughter translated it into words for those who could hear. By sign language also a trio, silently accompanied by twisting fingers in the crowd, articulated the hymns "Abide With Me," ''Lead, Kindly Light." "O Love That Will Not Let Me Go." Died. James P. Noonan, 51, president of International Brotherhood...
...epileptic than several members of the Royal House. Just now he is behind a sensible project to alter the Constitution so that, in case of need, one of King Alfonso's healthy daughters can inherit the Crown. As everyone knows Crown Prince Alfonso is a haemophile,? Prince Jaime deaf and almost dumb, Princes Juan and Gonzalo "mentally under-developed...
Optimism effected Helen Keller. With blind eyes she envisioned practical consequences tomorrow of what was wisest to do today. Through only a month of this practical optimism, she learned language at the age of seven. Miss Keller's career has also a social significance. The mind of no other deaf-blind has been reached so successfully, by such a variety of people. No longer are deaf-blinds classed with idiots in the statutes of any progressive State. No longer are deaf-blinds permitted to withdraw from society into their aching shells. To the Forest Hills, L. I. door of Helen...