Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hypnobioscope and the Subconscious. Not all his predictions have panned out. The inventions which Gernsback likes best are the "osophone," an instrument designed to enable deaf people to hear through their teeth, and the "hypnobioscope," an electrical device for educating people while they sleep. During the war Gernsback has advanced a great variety of military ideas, all described in plausible detail, including a flying tank which would shed its wings when it landed, and radio-controlled vehicles which might be sent ahead of an army to explode land mines...
...spend 15 minutes a day five times a week dramatizing the failure of the butcher to deliver the meat, the business of buying a Christmas present for the boss, the question of closed barbershops on Sunday, etc. They, plus their adopted son Russell, plus Uncle Fletcher, an absentminded, somewhat deaf, minutely anecdotal citizen, are the chief characters in the show. But the actors who play these four talk about an odd assortment of town characters who never appear...
...history of modern string quartet playing might be said to have begun in 1902. That year, partially deaf Edward J. de Coppet, senior partner of the Manhattan brokerage house of De Coppet & Doremus, decided to subsidize a group of four players who would make quartet playing their exclusive and full-time occupation. De Coppet, a fanatical music lover, gathered his quartet to practice in peace on his Swiss estate which he called Villa Flonzaley, after a small brook that flowed through the grounds. When they came out of hiding as the Flonzaley Quartet, the musical world soon found their playing...
...Next Ring. For the most part, Charley Wilson's passionate outburst dropped into an almost bottomless pit of editorial unconcern. But his words, coming from an impeccably Big Businessman, did not fall on deaf ears in the Waldorf's pink and gold Grand Ballroom-which contained at the time the very ears for which they were presumably intended...
...Leon Henderson's words apparently landed on Governor Edison's deaf ear. Next day Governor Edison named his longtime friend and business associate, Arthur Walsh, 47, manager of Governor Edison's successful campaign in 1940. At 19, Arthur Walsh played the violin for Thomas A. Edison, frequently played his instrument alongside Edison recordings to demonstrate their tonal quality. At Thomas Edison's funeral he played the inventor's favorite,I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen. He is now executive vice president of Thomas A. Edison Inc. and a director of six Edison subsidiaries...