Word: deafness
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...little farm town of Vandalia, Ill. just about doubled its population in one day. Some 4,000 newcomers, almost all of them blind, deaf, lame or incurably ill, were there to be healed. The self-styled healer: William Branham, a bald, narrow-shouldered, shiny-eyed Kentuckian and ex-power company lineman. As each patient walked or was carried past, Branham prayed over him, felt him to see if he vibrated with demons. When the last hallelujahs had died away and the collection had been taken, one young man announced that he had flung away his hearing...
...cabin is almost as noisy as a subway train. On a long flight, McFarland reports, noise can increase fatigue, inefficiency and irritability to the danger point. There is no proof, he says, that constant flying permanently deafens airmen, but it does reduce their hearing in the higher frequencies (a deaf spot known as "aviator's notch"). The plane's vibration also may have bad physical effects; on a long flight it temporarily impairs vision and deadens certain reflexes...
...illustrators, Cruikshank and "Phiz" (Alec Guinness as Pocket is a Cruikshank in the flesh). Besides the principal actors, all of whom are excellent, the most notable (and equally good) are Bernard Miles-another living Cruikshank-as the blacksmith, Anthony Wager as the boy Pip, O. B. Clarence as a deaf-&-daft gaffer, and 17-year-old Jean Simmons as Estella in her teens...
...making great strides toward a better expression of life on earth, coming generations can give thanks that we heeded the Christian philosophy Mr. Wallace represents. If civilization declines to an era similar to the Dark Ages-or perishes completely-we can attribute this to the fact that we turned deaf ears to a small voice...
...After the war he took the name of an actors' agent, broke into the Keith circuit as Fred Allen, touring with the likes of Sophie Tucker, Eva Tanguay, Rooney & Bent. His act began on a dark stage with a spotlight on a placard, reading: "Mr. Allen Is Quite Deaf. If You Care to Applaud, Please Do So Loudly." His suit, he confided to the audience, had been made in Jersey City-"I'm a bigger man there than I am here...