Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, Very Rev. William Ralph ("The Gloomy Dean") Inge set a definite date-Oct. 2-to his retirement from St. Paul's Cathedral. At 74, Dean Inge is in good health, but so deaf as to be tortured by the half sounds of music. Born of a solid ecclesiastical family, he is a low churchman, an arch-Tory, a rabble-hater. His successor, whose appointment the Dean recommended to his King, is Very Rev. Walter Robert Matthews, 53, dean of Exeter Cathedral. An able theologian and philosophy professor, Dr. Matthews is a religious modernist and far from gloomy...
...understand and appreciate TIME'S terse, pictorial style- certainly for those who didn't see the point in the "Suppose Curtis B. Ball . . ." article, there is a little newspaper using only a 900-word vocabulary. Since it is intended for foreigners learning English, deaf elementary-school children (whose handicap retards their linguistic development), Indian children, adult illiterates, etc. may we suggest that those who cannot get the points in TIME subscribe to The American World for the next school year. . . . One of the first words learned is the word "if," which if TIME-readers had understood, would have...
...cold, unimaginative Victoria Eugenie, Princess of Battenberg, brought her husband woe too. She was never really popular among Spaniards. She brought the King the dread haemophilia (easy bleeding) of her house, bore him a haemophilia heir, a second son who was a deaf mute, finally two whole boys, two fine girls capable of passing on their mother's haemophilia...
...White Plains, N. Y., deaf mute Joseph Donahue was miserable because his deafmute mate, Bertha, no longer loved him. When his affectionate fingers soothed, coaxed, enlaced in tender love words. Bertha's fingers only snapped, coiled, contorted scornfully. In time, Joseph became suspicious, enlisted deafmute friends to trail Bertha, sued for divorce. In court, after the fingers of his friends curled, twirled, twisted out their discovery of Bertha's adultery with an electrical engineer, she could only wring, writhe, entwine her own fluttering hands in full confession...
...usual tone of remarks on the subject has been a heated criticism of its mere presence, but all of the words and mouthings have apparently fallen on deaf or unrelenting ears. All efforts have gone in vain and little trouble has been expended in remedying a situation that is annoying to many...