Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conn, near his good friends Charles and Mary Beard (The Rise of American Civilization). In a workroom there made from an old corn crib he wrote The Robber Barons on a fellowship made possible by money from the Guggenheim family-plutocrats not included in his book. He is rather deaf, has a sloping forehead, a shy Slavic face; his mustache and hair parted in the middle give him the look of a Yiddish Robert Louis Stevenson. Other books: Gallimathias (poems), Zola & His Time, Portrait of the Artist as American, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The Robber Barons is the March choice...
Three months ago the President was turning a very deaf ear to all pleas for modification of the Securities Act. Last week he seemed to be swinging over to the idea of reasonable relaxations of the Act. Purpose: to encourage long term investment by private capital-investment that might put men to work for industry on much larger scale than the wheezy Public Works program...
...same hand. Other pairs wrote enough alike to deceive a bank teller completely, to make experts hesitate. This degree of resemblance he also found in the handwriting of two young girls, no kin, both taught to write in the school of Edinburgh's Royal Hospital for the Deaf...
From various remarks dropped by the actors, and also by the escort of the deaf lady in the next box, we gathered that the theme of the play was nothing less than the attempt of a god on shore-leave to rob a young dance-hall hostess of her maidenhead. Two other tars, gross fellows all, lay bets upon his enterprise. This plot is a simple one, and it is thematically unvaried throughout. If you are looking for an evening of good 100 per cent American smut, this is it. There's no nastiness in it; the only cloud...
...when he refused to testify against her in court and the judge gave her a suspended sentence ; Uncle, oldest plantation inhabitant, who believed he had a right to three men's ra tions because he had lived as long and worked as hard as any three men; the deaf woman who killed her baby because her man would not acknowledge her. Expert reporter of Negro dialect, Au thoress Peterkin can get the authentic ef fect even in an indirect transcription : "After his lawfully lady left him, he looked so down in the heart, she offered to do his washing...