Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lady Wenlock was so absent-minded that once when she was hunting a pen, she found herself looking for it under P in the French dictionary. Deaf, too, she carried a silver ear trumpet that looked like an entree dish. When she turned it toward an Italian duke at luncheon, he gallantly filled it with green peas...
...Stockholm on schedule went 117 deaf British athletes, one carrying a gas mask, to compete in the 5th International Deaf Games...
Slight, grey-haired, slack-chinned General Ismet Inönü, right hand man and successor to the late, great Mustafa Kama! Atatürk, is peculiar among statesmen in that he is quite deaf. President Ismet Inönü, who in his soldiering days wanted to go on fighting the Greeks long after The Atatürk knew he had been whipped, is also quite fearless. Last week into the deaf ears of this master of the Dardanelles poured blandishments, at his stout heart were hurled threats, as Ambassador Franz von Papen sought to detach Turkey from...
...invisible hearing aid for the deaf, built entirely within a set of false teeth...
Carl Shannon's reporting days ended when he misquoted Jim Reed in the Kansas City Star and his city editor found out he was growing deaf. Two decades of tramping from one paper to another wound him up in the town of Harlingen, Texas, where Colonel S. P. Etheredge found him 20 years ago and hired him as telegraph editor for his Enterprise. Shannon stayed put for three years, then went to New Orleans. Five months later he wired Publisher Etheredge that he was tired of wandering, would rather live in Beaumont than any place on earth...