Word: deafness
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Caesar was deaf in his left ear. George III was insane. The Kaiser has a shriveled arm. Andrew Jackson had tuberculosis. Abraham Lincoln suffered from chronic constipation. None of these statements is offensive to U. S. citizens. But when John Gay mentioned the infirmity of a living President of the U. S., angry booing broke loose in the Waukesha hall. A quartet struck up a campaign song, thereby temporarily restoring order. Then Nominee Chapple rose and spoke...
...have no names on the figures," says Sculptor Milles. "The only one is Beethoven." The deaf composer, his body lean and naked, his face seamed with anguish, raises imploring hands...
...Still deaf to his own exhortations about the joy and duty of begetting is Adolf Hitler. Last week, however, the bachelor Realmleader did the handsome thing by German spouses...
Lacking personal appeal or popularity, Acting Governor Merriam has been a trial to Richard W. Barrett, his northern California campaign manager. Under the direction of this San Francisco attorney, Acting Governor Merriam has been taken to football matches, photographed talking to deaf mutes through an interpreter. And last week at Los Angeles he made his first campaign speech, lifting a phrase from the first citizen of Palo Alto: "Human misery should not be made a laboratory for experimentation by even the most well-meaning of theorists...
...benefit of those who have allowed the first three installment of the story of Abner, the model candidate to fall on deaf ears, let us remind you that tonight, at 7.30 o'clock in the CRIMSON building at 14 Plympton Street, the first competition of this fall opens to members of the Sophomore and Junior classes. More explicitly, the Editorial competition is open to Juniors and the portals of the other three departments will be thrown open to ambitious members of the Class...