Word: deafness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Baby, she ain't sayin' nothin'. "How you come on, den? Is you deaf...
...many people were turning a deaf ear to radio that it was causing talk. Last week Variety compared this year's final summer Hooperatings* with ratings ten years ago. The comparison...
...Santiago, Chile, a deaf woman in the jampacked audience at the Teatro Central had trouble following the ceremony on the stage. She turned to her husband, asked why the American nurse was getting a medal: "Because she had 8,000 babies," he answered. "Impossible!" gasped his wife...
...Breaking Home Ties (a gloomy, gawky boy, hat in hand, enduring a last, long look from his mother while the menfolk wait to take him to the depot), and John Henry Lorimer's Mariage de Convenance (in which a weeping, heavily veiled bride collapses in her room, deaf to the happy chirps of two little bridesmaids who have come to fetch her down). They generally admired Romney's pink-cheeked Willett Children for seeming recently tubbed and scrubbed yet true-to-life...
...Blind, deaf Helen Keller had to stretch just as hard, merely to start living. At seven, more than five years after illness destroyed her vision and hearing, she felt a doll being thrust into her hands by a new friend. Writes Helen: "When I had played with [the doll] a little while, Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word 'd-o-l-l.' I was at once interested in this finger play. . . . I did not know [for several weeks] that I was spelling a word or even that words existed...