Word: deafness
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...Methodist preacher's son was in juvenile court, threatened with reform school. But the judge, noticing that Willard Hargrave seemed to pay little attention to the court proceedings, wondered whether he had heard what went on. A doctor's examination showed that the "dummy" was half deaf, probably as a result of chicken...
...shepherd won the crowd, but Judge Hartman, ignoring the applause as though he were stone deaf, went on with his work. The highly barbered black standard poodle (nonsporting group), the feather-light toy white poodle (toy group) and the Scotty (king of the terriers) got their inspections. Then each of the six finalists was gaited for the judge...
Counterpoint. In Cleveland, Mrs. Agnes Graso, suing for divorce, charged that her husband caused her to become deaf by beating her, then broke her hearing aid when she refused to listen to his conversation...
Spain's 41-year-old Don Jaime de Bourbon, Duke of Segovia, born deaf & dumb, has always led the quiet life, devoted himself intently to lip reading and to learning to talk which he now does, blurrily but intelligibly, in three languages. The elder of the late King Alfonso's two living sons, he gave up his rights to the Spanish throne 16 years ago in favor of his healthy younger brother Juan, and set off in pursuit of the happiness that has traditionally eluded his hemophilic Bourbon family...
...election night in New Zealand, the flat voices of radio announcers reported the people's choice. The broadcasts came from state-owned radio stations; thousands of New Zealanders heard the news in the comfort of state-owned houses, and even the partially deaf listened with hearing aids provided by the state. Many of the welfare state's supporters and beneficiaries could hardly believe their ears: after 14 years of Socialist government, New Zealand had had enough...