Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regulars missed a familiar sight: a limousine pulling up in front just before concert time, and a tall (6 ft. 1 in.) woman with a flower-garden hat and a look of the '90s about her clothes, stepping out on the arm of a friend. At 84, almost deaf and barely able to walk, Patroness Coolidge was too tired to go that far for a concert (although she did get to one nearer home, in Pittsfield, Mass...
Last week the strategic, oil-rich realm of the Shah of Shahs, 29-year-old Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, had no government. The cabinet of deaf* old Ibrahim Hakimi had fallen two weeks before. Abdul Hussein Hajir (who has one glass eye) was named to succeed him. But last week a Teheran mob kept the Majlis from meeting to approve Hajir's cabinet. Said one English-speaking Persian politician: "There's an old proverb that 'a year can be judged by its spring.' Well, it looks as though there's going to be an early fall...
...other leader was apple-cheeked, 85-year-old Uncle Joe Grundy, the wealthy Quaker mill-owner whose name has long been a synonym for high-tariff Republicanism and who has fed and guided the forces of Pennsylvania's conservatism for nearly half a century. Uncle Joe is quite deaf, scorns such contraptions as hearing aids, and conserves his energy. While he planned the strategy for his camp this week, the tactics were in the hands of his handyman, National Committeeman G. Mason Owlett, who doubles in brass as president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. Grundy, Owlett & Co. were...
Kansas' kindly Republican Arthur Capper has sat in the U.S. Senate for 29 years -longer than any other member of his party.* Nearing 83, he is stone-deaf, inclined to doze off in the middle of important conversations. By virtue of his long service, he is chairman of the Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee and ranking majority member, after Arthur Vandenberg, of the Foreign Relations Committee...
...unconverted get nowhere accusing bebop of dissonance. Says Dizzy: "If it doesn't hurt your ears it isn't dissonance. But then," he confesses, "I'm a little deaf myself...