Word: deafness
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...South Africa local statesmen enjoy vexing the Bank of England by keeping their local pounds & shillings on the gold standard. Patriotic appeals from London, urging South Africa to follow the Mother Country off gold, have fallen on deaf Afrikander ears. "While I remain Premier," has declared militant, Dutch-blooded South African Premier James Barry Munnik Hertzog, "we shall remain on gold...
...Immortal" but the ludicrous thing that occurred was not made known. Passed a decent interval. Last week Paris was at length permitted to chuckle hugely over what le petit General said when he took his seat. "Messieurs!" cried General Weygand in such ringing, parade ground tones that even aged, deaf Immortals had no need to cup hand to ear, "Messieurs, I had pre pared a speech of more than six pages* to thank you for the honor you have done me, but I left it on my study table and my dog ate it." When the mirth of the Immortals...
Helen Adams Keller, U. S. deaf & blind leader LL.D...
...void. Last week the New York State Court of Appeals upheld N. A. N. A.'s defense, passed lightly over the agency's part in the alleged "fraud & deceit" thus: "The plaintiff's complaint that the defendant treated him as he had treated others falls upon deaf ears; the law is silent; it has nothing...
...teacher's recommendation, to the East Springfield Academy, whence he was graduated as valedictorian in 1889. His unusual abilities led his family to send him to St. Lawrence University. Luck attended him. Once in class, when he mumbled an apology for not knowing an answer, the deaf professor praised him: "Your answer is correct, Mr. Young." In 1894 he went, to Boston University, studied law. For years he practiced law, specializing in public utilities, until in 1912 he caught the attention of General Electric's President Charles Coffin. As head of the law department he had plenty...