Word: deafness
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...then Lolita Armour (now Mrs John J. Mitchell Jr.) and so gained his U. S. fame. At that time he was beginning to look seedy, to show signs of weariness (his manual operation requires terrific force). What had made him grow so vital, so virile? True he was slightly deaf. But otherwise he seemed a man in full prime. Dr. Lorenz laughed at them, laughed with an inner secret...
Into Trinity, which famed Bishop Phillips Brooks, who died in 1893, made world-noted, these deaf, many of them mutes besides, filed to watch the ordination by Coadjutor Bishop Charles Lewis Slattery, to watch the versicles, to respond by signs. They even "sang" a hymn, in slow movement, with their flying fingers...
...Slight has been the sympathetic lay reader for the deaf of New England these many years, has been their acting minister the past six months. He takes pains in bringing to all his people the word of God. And this the deaf appreciate because, deprived of a sense and often mocked at, they tend to withdraw from more normal associates. They all too constantly fear a neighbor may be gossiping about them...
...counteract this morbid tendency the generous of the world have succeeded in devising methods of communicating for the deaf. One will recall the experiments which enabled blind, deaf, mute Helen Keller finally to speak. In reading lips most deaf people have become so adept that no longer do cinema actors dare blaspheme or talk ribaldry before the camera. Incidentally the cinema has been a great blessing for the deaf...
...conversation the deaf use three systems of signs: 1) natural signs to express ideas; 2) methodical signs for words; and 3) manual signs each of which represents a letter of the alphabet...