Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Immortal" but the ludicrous thing that occurred was not made known. Passed a decent interval. Last week Paris was at length permitted to chuckle hugely over what le petit General said when he took his seat. "Messieurs!" cried General Weygand in such ringing, parade ground tones that even aged, deaf Immortals had no need to cup hand to ear, "Messieurs, I had pre pared a speech of more than six pages* to thank you for the honor you have done me, but I left it on my study table and my dog ate it." When the mirth of the Immortals...
...void. Last week the New York State Court of Appeals upheld N. A. N. A.'s defense, passed lightly over the agency's part in the alleged "fraud & deceit" thus: "The plaintiff's complaint that the defendant treated him as he had treated others falls upon deaf ears; the law is silent; it has nothing...
...teacher's recommendation, to the East Springfield Academy, whence he was graduated as valedictorian in 1889. His unusual abilities led his family to send him to St. Lawrence University. Luck attended him. Once in class, when he mumbled an apology for not knowing an answer, the deaf professor praised him: "Your answer is correct, Mr. Young." In 1894 he went, to Boston University, studied law. For years he practiced law, specializing in public utilities, until in 1912 he caught the attention of General Electric's President Charles Coffin. As head of the law department he had plenty...
...Ninth (last) Symphony was given its first performance in Vienna. Beethoven, a homely, dumpy, shaggy-headed little figure, stood in the orchestra, eyes fixed on his score, awkwardly beating time. He was not the official conductor. The players had been instructed to pay him no attention. He was so deaf by that time that he could hear nothing of the great, surging music called for by the pinny, almost illegible little notes he had made. He did not sense the applause which came afterwards until one of the soloists, a Fraulein Caroline Linger, turned him around so that his eyes...
Samuel T. Shaw, deaf, white-haired, was once an art student but he went into the hotel business to make more money. With Simeon Ford, chief rival of Chauncey Depew as an after dinner speaker in the terrapin stew era, he owned the lamented Grand Union Hotel on 42nd Street. The Grand Union vied with Delmonico's and the Café Lafayette for the best food in the city. Its Hasenpfeffer and roast oysters were famed. It boasted a vast T-shaped bar at which beer was dispensed from the transepts, mixed drinks along the nave. Like every other...