Word: deafness
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...correct an error which occurred in your Feb. 7 issue? The item reads: "Mrs. Coolidge received the graduating class of Public School No. 47 of New York City. They were deaf. She talked to them in sign-language which she had learned when she taught in a school for deaf-mutes at Northampton, Mass...
Because these pupils can talk we never use the word "mute." They are deaf, but not mute...
...Eventually he reached his week's goal- Inventor Thomas Alva Edison's 80th birthday party at West Orange, N. J. Mr. Ford, genial, amiable, yelled newspapermen's questions into Mr. Edison's ear. Mr. Edison is quite deaf. Harvey S. Firestone, Akron rubberman, watched...
...Coolidge- received the graduating class of Public School No. 47 of New York City. They were deaf. She talked to them in sign-language which she had learned when she taught in a school for deaf-mutes at Northampton, Mass...
...sees a frustrated dream realized when the frail six-year-old plays from memory, with never a lesson, an entire lengthy concerto. The child is taught at home, overworks to the verge of death but survives to take his virtuosity, the marvel of that countryside, to Vienna. Beethoven, old, deaf, impoverished, whose portrait presides over the Liszt piano at home, consecrates the spindly little acolyte with a kiss...