Word: deafness
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...talkies fail to print subtitles throughout the films. Hence deaf-mutes who dislike reading lips cannot understand all of the action...
...factotums of Chicago's Hotel Sherman last week installed the usual facilities: a microphone and loudspeaker in the convention hall, a glittering screen behind the speakers' platform. All this unfortunately was not evidence of tact and foresight. The delegates were members of the National Association of the Deaf. The microphone was useless and the glittering screen had to be replaced by a black one before the audience could see what the speakers were saying...
Almost as inappropriate as the hall's equipment in the alert eyes of the deaf-mutes, was the message from President Roosevelt read off to them on his nimble fingers by the N. A. D.'s dapper President Marcus Levi Kenner of Manhattan. Deaf-mutes applaud by waving their hands in the air, but the President's hope "that the present great activity in those branches of physics affecting acoustics may result in the development of vastly improved aids to hearing" caused only perfunctory gesticulations. Fact is that the nation's 100,000 stone deaf...
...deaf-mutes who attended the convention of the 57-year-old organization last week danced to the music of a five-piece band, which they felt through their feet. They learned that the only "impostor" (a person of sound hearing who poses as deaf to cadge charitable upkeep) to appear during the past three years, one Charles Burton of Altoona. Pa., had been punished by law, then killed by a motorcar. They pointed with pride to the deaf-mutes who make high mark in the world today-Sculptor Elmer A. Hannon, Poet Howard Leslie Terry, blind Pianist Helen May Martin...
...people in the U. S. who do not hear clearly may well blame their medicine cabinets and self-indulgences. Some drugs affect the ear itself, said Dr. Taylor; others the hearing centres of the brain. Most harmful is quinine, which has been found in the brains of deaf babies of women who took this drug to stimulate childbirth...