Word: deafness
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From various remarks dropped by the actors, and also by the escort of the deaf lady in the next box, we gathered that the theme of the play was nothing less than the attempt of a god on shore-leave to rob a young dance-hall hostess of her maidenhead. Two other tars, gross fellows all, lay bets upon his enterprise. This plot is a simple one, and it is thematically unvaried throughout. If you are looking for an evening of good 100 per cent American smut, this is it. There's no nastiness in it; the only cloud...
...when he refused to testify against her in court and the judge gave her a suspended sentence ; Uncle, oldest plantation inhabitant, who believed he had a right to three men's ra tions because he had lived as long and worked as hard as any three men; the deaf woman who killed her baby because her man would not acknowledge her. Expert reporter of Negro dialect, Au thoress Peterkin can get the authentic ef fect even in an indirect transcription : "After his lawfully lady left him, he looked so down in the heart, she offered to do his washing...
...would be desirable to throw open all Widener for use during the evenings of the reading period. Since the authorities have consistently turned a deaf ear to this proposal, they ought at least to consider the more modest one, framed for the benefit of Seniors working on theses and for graduate and research students, to institute some arrangement whereby the stacks might be available evenings. Such a suggestion could certainly not be turned down on the grounds of economy, for it involves no extensive lighting system, nor the employment of any large force of administrative officials. At the same time...
...Worried, deaf Senator Hardy received reporters in Paris last week. "Trouble and tragedy seem to stalk in my household," said...
...explicit as Mr. Raskob, but the Senators eyed him much more curiously. He was not only the manager of a syndicate which had cleared $12,000,000 without putting up I? but also the biggest stock and grain speculator that the Senators had yet beheld. Spare, white-haired, slightly deaf Arthur William Cutten sat with his hand cupped behind his ear throughout most of the long interrogation on the great Sinclair Consolidated Oil pool of 1928-29. Unsmiling he peered through his spectacles at Inquisitor Pecora whom he could not hear half the time and who could hear Mr. Cutten...