Word: deafness
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...possibilities of income, in one form or another, from their wealthier neighbors. The loss incurred by the university community is slight, and only the possibility of a serious fire or an injured student can justify consideration of the problem on materialistic grounds; but Harvard should not be altogether deaf to its civic obligations...
...recalls it as his wife's first part as a beauty, in the role of Lady Castlemaine, remembers that they spent all their ready cash on fake jewelry to make her look more fetching. The acclaim for the new stage beauty was led by Mr. Lunt's deaf mother, Mrs. Harriet Sederholm, whose untempered voice could be heard quite plainly from the audience asking her neighbor, "Isn't she a dream...
Shaw boasts that he got his Star post "because I believed I could make musical criticism readable even by the deaf." As Corno di Bassetto he succeeded partly by being flip, partly by avoiding, to the scandalized amusement of his colleagues, the technical aspect of music. Nevertheless, Shaw had a sound background. With the aid of his mother and a singing teacher who had moved into their Dublin house, he had developed a skilled but "uninteresting" baritone voice, had learned the piano and mastered in great detail a tremendous lot of musical scores, mostly the operas of Meyerbeer and Verdi...
...Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, after a stomach operation, in Skagen Jutland; Prince Kimmochi Saionji, 87, Japan's last surviving elder statesman, as a result of "a train ride too soon after luncheon." in Okitsu, Japan; Deaf-mute Teacher Helen Keller, after an abdominal operation, in Rochester, Minn.; Maryland's one-eyed Governor Harry Nice, after an emergency operation for removal of an abscess, in Baltimore...
Eleven years ago the general manager of Thomas A. Edison, Inc.'s electric storage battery factory, George E. Stringfellow. yelled into Edison's less deaf ear: "Mr. Edison, would you be willing to continue as consultant for the battery company after you passed to the Great Beyond." Said Edison: "You are crazy." Shouted Stringfellow: ''It might work. You invented this battery, and in your mind there is information about it that no one else has. Will you let the stall give you written questions about the battery every Saturday afternoon before you go home? You could...