Word: deafness
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...rather deaf but very active," there arrived in the U. S. Viscount Leverhulme, King of Port Sunlight, the home of soap, on board the S. S. Majestic. He was accompanied by his son, the Hon. William Hulme Lever, also by an old school fellow, Jonathan Simpson, and by five directors of his various companies...
...essence of this speech is that "actions speak louder than words". Where words alone are concerned, the Premier and the nationals which he represents are turning deaf ears. "We await Germany's acts", says the Premier and goes on to exclaim "with what joy shall we remain silent the day Germany understands; but she has given us dally fresh proof of her lack of understanding". Standing in the village of Ailly Wood in northern France it would indeed be strange if the ruins about him did not, like Caesar's wounds, open their poor dumb mouths and eloquently remind...
...Association, in an editorial under date of August 11, recounts the history of Jaime's malady and the frequent sensational stories of his cure by members of various healing cults. Earlier investigations proved their falsity, and the Journal ends with the unqualified statement: " Meanwhile Don Jaime is still deaf...
Calvin Coolidge: " It is said that Mrs. Coolidge, questioned as to how she gets along with a man who talks so little, replied: 'You know I was a teacher in a deaf-mute college (Clarke's School for the Deaf, Northampton, Mass.) before we were married, and had become thoroughly accustomed to long periods of restful silence...
...Curtis H. Muncie, Brooklyn osteopath, was summoned by King Alfonso to treat the Prince (TIME, July 2). Don Jaime was so deaf that he could hear only shouted conversation. Dr. Muncie put him under an anaesthetic, reconstructed the eustachian tube with his forefinger.. Twenty minutes later, Don Jaime was able to hear normally...