Word: distinguisher
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...Declared Marx: "I'm the one with the brains." Although some acquaintances had predicted that the marriage would not last two minutes, Lou and Idella are now the happy parents of four sons. Each son has two generals as godfathers. The "second shift," as Marx calls them (to distinguish Idella's offspring from the four children by his first wife), boasts a total of 35 sponsoring stars. The eldest boy, six-year-old Spencer Bedell (the only second-shift Marx with a nonmilitary first name) is a godchild of President Eisenhower and Bedell Smith. Ike volunteered again when Emmett Dwight...
...Groton, Averell did not distinguish himself; he was a fairly good scholar, pleasant, modest, quiet, well-mannered, but he won no prizes. At Yale he was again just average as a student. It was at Yale that Averell Harriman's record first showed the intensity of concentration that has never left him. He became a bridge addict. After a bridge session, Averell would return to his room and sit for hours doing postmortems. He learned to memorize the hands and plays, and then would reconstruct them. His daughter Kathleen (Mrs. Stanley G. Mortimer Jr.), recalling his stories of this...
...fact, one of the ablest technicians at getting out the news that the White House has ever had. Like his father, James A. Hagerty, he was drilled as a political reporter on the New York Times (whose editors gratuitously added a "Jr." to Jim's byline to distinguish the generations). Jim Jr. quit after eight years in the city room and Albany Bureau to become press secretary to New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey in 1943. Nine years and three presidential campaigns later, Jim Hagerty joined Ike after Eisenhower received the G.O.P. nomination...
...school's method is based on the belief that the totally deaf person is almost nonexistent; even those who seem totally deaf to others usually have some slight remnant of hearing. With the help of powerful hearing aids, that remnant can be trained to distinguish speech rhythms. Sign language, Clarke insists, produces only a limited vocabulary. It calls attention to the handicap, keeps the deaf child perpetually a stranger in the world of the hearing...
...loved him and is losing out on a career. There is the girl herself (Jessica Tandy), now a middle-aging widow who loves him no longer. Devoid of pasts or futures or both, the characters are drowning with the utmost politeness; it is sometimes hard, in fact, to distinguish desperation in them from mere lassitude...