Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago Editor Maurras was fined $6.50, sentenced to four months in jail on the grounds that a previous editorial had inspired a Royalist mob to give Leon Blum a cruel beating on a Paris street (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.}. Last week Editor Maurras, who is stone deaf, rushed forward to the Judge's bench, began shouting his fears that Leon Blum would lead France into war against Italy. "If my threats of death have prevented war between France and Italy, may they be blessed!" he screamed, brushing back his hair and consulting a handful of notes...
...ordered a radical cut in U. S. rail rates (TIME, March 9), all the Eastern lines except the Baltimore & Ohio have yammered that the new rates (2? per mi. in coaches; 3? in Pullmans) were unfair, would do the roads more harm than good. When the ICC turned a deaf ear to all protests and ordered the new rates into effect June 2 as scheduled, the Eastern group decided on a court fight. Fortnight ago the B. & O. declared it would lower its rates anyway...
Last week a deaf old lady checked out of a small hotel in Lewisburg, Pa. after seven months of seclusion there, returned quietly to Manhattan. Remaining in seclusion unrelieved was her 69-year-old husband, Joseph Wright Harriman. onetime socialite banker, whose exploits in dementia during his criminal trial three years ago scarcely equaled those by which he put his Harriman National Bank & Trust Co. into the red and finally into receivership in 1933. As prison librarian at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, Convict Harriman had ample opportunity last week to read in the Press of the embarrassments his bank caused...
...until 12:30 a. m., had last week covered a distance equivalent to a journey from San Diego to Chicago. As they set off around the Coliseum for New York, favorites to win were Cousin "Libby" Hoover, an Italian team of Gene Vizena and John Rosasco, a deaf-mute named Jay Levy who has taught his waitress-partner to talk with her hands, the Bogashes, bearded John Devitt. Exhibiting one minor but inflexible characteristic of certain tree-sitting, dancing, walking and roller-skating marathoners, Devitt vowed not to shave until he was leading the event. Next spring Promoter Seltzer plans...
...where he would sit down at the piano, pour out one improvisation after another. He wrote with prodigious energy. First came trios, quartets, sonatas.* The first symphony was criticized for what then seemed to be an excessive use of brasses and timpani. Drums were pounding in ears already growing deaf when, at 34, Beethoven wrote the Third, the Eroica which Napoleon inspired...