Word: deafness
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...exiled Spanish Court circles at Fontainebleau morose courtiers remarked that succession to the Throne now rests with ex-King Alfonso's second son, Don Jaime, born a deaf mute and with difficulty educated up to croaking talk...
Time & again Debussy took orders for music. Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza gave him an advance on operas which were never delivered to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Mrs. Elise Hall, a deaf Boston lady who on her doctor's advice had taken up the saxophone, commissioned him to write a Rhapsodie for her to play at one of her annual solo appearances with the Boston Orchestral Club, which she financed for a decade early in the century. Mrs. Hall was one of the Boston Coolidges* but to Debussy she was just "the Saxophone Lady." He wrote...
...been campus correspondent for the New York Tribune. Mr. Draper put aside his engineer's degree, went downtown and to work as a Tribune cub. For the next 28 years Editor Woods and Newshawk Draper served their respective publications. Last week Editor Woods, 60, erudite, kindly, somewhat deaf, resigned from the Literary Digest, planned to travel, write books; and Arthur Draper, 50, quit his job as assistant editor of the Herald Tribune to take Editor Woods's place...
...illegitimate mixture of foods is tre- fah or terephah. Terephah literally means "an animal torn by wild beasts." It applies especially to the slaughter of animals, or shechitah. Shechitah. The shochet is the one who does the slaughtering. One may not be a shochet if he is a deaf-mute, idiot, minor, one who is intoxicated, an old man with trembling hands (he might press against the throat instead of having his knife go gently forwards & backwards), a non-Jew, or a Jew who spitefully transgresses the laws. The shochet is a man of Hebrew learning, well-versed in Talmud...
Then, as he approached the U. S. for the first time, his coming was heralded by a super-Shavianism. In the New York Times, blind, deaf, gentle Helen Keller told how, when she once met him and admiringly addressed him in England at Lady Astor's, he snapped: "All Americans are blind and deaf-and dumb!" (TIME, March...