Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hotel-goer patiently stands in slow-moving queues at the understaffed registration desk. He rides to the wrong floors in jerky elevators operated by flippant, teen-age boys & girls or by deaf old gaffers. The call "Front" may bring a pint-sized bellhop, but usually the traveler totes his own bags. Frequently he is ushered into a room that seems to have been bombed: the bed unmade, the bureau loaded with dreg-laden tumblers, the ash trays choked with butts. One wet, crumpled towel is left on the washstand, the legacy of yesterday's guest, who seems to have...
Lecturing at Los Angeles' John Tracy ear clinic (named for Spencer Tracy's deaf son), Volf propounded a revolutionary theory: physiologists have been all wrong in teaching that the ear's semicircular canals are responsible for man's equilibrium. Equilibrium, said Volf, is an acquired trait that man has to learn by becoming "attuned to rhythmic conformity with the rotation of the earth...
Volf had observed that deaf people without semicircular canals seem to have no difficulty in balancing themselves, that many had become outstanding dancers. But his most startling "evidence" was his observation of the way certain people walk. A child, said Volf, always takes his first toddling steps toward the east. Why? Because the earth's rotation in that direction makes it easier. Suggested Volf: "Just try to call a child who has begun to walk in the easterly direction. If you are west of the child, he will stop, sit down, turn around and crawl back on all fours...
...Visitors. Outside Dana, in a farm home behind a long lawn, lives Ernie's father, William Clyde Pyle. He is 76, partly deaf, on the mend after a hip-fracturing fall. With him lives Ernie's 78-year-old Aunt Mary Bales, sister of his late mother. Editor Mathes looked in last week to see what they thought of the weekly column. Father Pyle's verdict: "Fine, I reckon the visitors can clip it." He referred to the fact that motorists are always dropping in to say how they enjoy Ernest (he is never "Ernie...
...Knowing People. The Germans knew what was ahead. A man would have to be deaf, dumb & blind not to know. Except for a few blissful days of bad weather, the air bombardment went on without letup. Deliberate, impersonal BBC announcers even gave statistics: two tons of Allied demolition bombs were smashing at Europe every minute of the day & night...