Word: deafness
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...that in your admirable review of Harriet Martineau's Retrospect of Western Travel (TIME, Nov. 2) the reviewer had played up more dramatically Harriet's really amazing achievement. This was not writing a lively and realistic description of our infant republic, but rather in spite of serious deafness collecting the facts for it. My lifelong interest in Harriet was inspired by her handicap, for I, too, have been seriously deaf all my life...
...year-old spinster (she was born lacking a sense of taste or smell; became deaf in childhood) first saw "the dim shore" of her destination as "a long line of the New Jersey coast, with distinguishable trees and white houses." "I was taken by surprise," she wrote, "by my own emotions. All that I had heard of the Pilgrim Fathers, of the old colonial days, of the great men of the Revolution, and of the busy, prosperous succeeding days stirred up my mind...
...Knocked a deaf & dumb Gascon head-over-heels among the modeling stands...
...colorfully dressed troupe who away expertly with a castinet in either hand. Though somewhat incongruous in a slapstick show, they prove that art is as effective as acrobatics in vaudeville. Humor, however, is the mainstay, with a relay of, Bert Wheeler, Willie Howard, and a dumb-but-not-deaf young man, Gene Sheldon, who all but steals the show...
...Chattanooga a want ad summarized the local situation: "WANTED: Registered druggist-young or old, deaf or dumb. Must have license and walk without crutches. Apply Cloverleaf Drug Store...