Word: deafness
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...dozen men and women whose features rhythmically moved in quickly-changing contortions. Their arms rose and fell, their fingers wiggling in concerted movement. Only sound in the church was the creaky tenor voice. When the hymn ended, the gesticulations of the half dozen people ended and the audience -So deaf-mutes-broke into spirited applause. The pastor of Cameron Methodist Episcopal Church of the Deaf, Rev. August H. Staubitz, arose. With lightning fingers he signaled his flock that they were about to behold a lecture on the Passion Play of Oberammergau, for which each of them had paid...
...small amount of undergraduate humility should be a good nostrum for the literary aspirant. If the Mr. Wades of the college would content themselves with sober and constructive criticisms within their depth they would gain a great many ears which are now deaf to them. "The Saturday Review" would I am sure not only welcome but publish a sensible criticism of its policies. (Name withheld by request...
...Conn, near his good friends Charles and Mary Beard (The Rise of American Civilization). In a workroom there made from an old corn crib he wrote The Robber Barons on a fellowship made possible by money from the Guggenheim family-plutocrats not included in his book. He is rather deaf, has a sloping forehead, a shy Slavic face; his mustache and hair parted in the middle give him the look of a Yiddish Robert Louis Stevenson. Other books: Gallimathias (poems), Zola & His Time, Portrait of the Artist as American, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The Robber Barons is the March choice...
Three months ago the President was turning a very deaf ear to all pleas for modification of the Securities Act. Last week he seemed to be swinging over to the idea of reasonable relaxations of the Act. Purpose: to encourage long term investment by private capital-investment that might put men to work for industry on much larger scale than the wheezy Public Works program...
...same hand. Other pairs wrote enough alike to deceive a bank teller completely, to make experts hesitate. This degree of resemblance he also found in the handwriting of two young girls, no kin, both taught to write in the school of Edinburgh's Royal Hospital for the Deaf...