Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After defeating their other foes the Bolsheviks finally counterattacked, pushed the Poles back almost to Warsaw. Polish emissaries at London screamed for help, but Prime Minister David Lloyd George, never before or since too fond of the Poles, reminded them that they were the original aggressors and turned a deaf ear. Finally the French agreed to help, the Russians were routed, and in the Treaty of Riga ending the conflict, Poland extended her frontiers some 150 miles east of the Curzon line at Russia's expense...
...qualities which a foreign emissary to Tokyo needs: seven years' residence in the country, tall body, grey hair, dark mustache, spectacular brows, horn-rimmed glasses, sensitivity, firmness, a gentlemanly capacity for hard work and saki (rice wine), good clothes, a beautiful house filled with Oriental antiques, and one deaf ear, which he knows how to turn at the right moment...
Last week all this U. S.-Finnish amity spectacularly came home to roost when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, having turned a deaf ear to pleas that he intervene for peace between Germany and the Allies, and having let Russia invade Poland and hog-tie Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania without protest (TIME, Sept. 25, et seq.), vigorously bestirred himself lest Joseph Stalin crack down with undue harshness upon Finland. In Washington, if nowhere else in the U. S., Finland is the national baby of 1939 that has taken the place of 1914 Baby Belgium...
Last week World War II brought venerable white-haired, deaf Charles Beard back to Columbia. Still peppery but now a pacifist, Dr. Beard last week was one of the most convinced and outspoken isolationists in the U. S. Accepting a job as visiting professor from President Nicholas Murray Butler, to whom he gave his resignation 22 years ago, Dr. Beard said: "What is past is past," began to teach a seminar of graduate students "The Concept of Democracy in American Political Thought...
Eddie Marsh worshipped his pious, bookish, tone-deaf mother (she "couldn't tell God Save the Weasel from Pop Goes the Queen"). She weaned Author Marsh on Hamlet's soliloquy, and he started her reading such moderns as Zola. She taught him to sew, too, and later, Sir Warrington Smyth, a schoolfellow, and "a powerful influence for good, fired me to knit mittens...