Word: deafness
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...noted that these silent folk looked at each other with wide, quick-moving eyes which certainly observed everything, especially the queerly gesticulating fingers of their fellows, fingers that seemed to fly in fluid curves, hooks and angles, fingers that flipped with exact intention. Then the realization came that these deaf persons had come to Trinity Church to attend the ordination to the Episcopal priesthood of James Stanley Slight...
...Maine?the 28 years since his birth had passed in that State?that he could have $2,500 on call for the publication of his juvenile. A Maine boy who had preceded Munsey to Manhattan had promised another $1,000. The promised capital was called for, but was deaf. Dismayed, Munsey took his idea to a publisher and with unexpected suddenness, The Golden Argosy appeared in weekly issues. Five months later the publisher failed, owing Munsey $1,000 salary. Staggered, Munsey took the magazine in lieu of salary, although the magazine already owed more money than it was worth. Somehow...
Hungarian reviewers noted that Prince Galitzin has seen fit to adduce no evidence whatever in support of his assertions. They evinced surprise that he should have troubled to repeat a rumor that has long fallen upon deaf ears...
...volume, three inches thick, bound in black seal and inscribed "In Memoriam Calvin Coolidge Jr.," was completed last week by the deaf and dumb employes of Walter Hyams & Co. of Manhattan. It was ordered by President Coolidge soon after his younger son's death more than a year ago. The volume is filled with clippings about his son chronologically arranged and mounted so as to insure permanency...
Pedestrians in Vienna who are deaf will hereafter wear a yellow arm band 10 cm. wide with three large round black spots. The suggestion was made, by the police because several recent accidents were the result of subnormal hearing on the part of certain pedestrians. The "Vox" society (70,000 members-all of whom have subnormal hearing) supplied all of its members with arm bands. The society finds that 12% of the traffic accidents have been due to subnormal hearing...