Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heredity is an important cause of hardness of hearing or total deafness. Some children are born deaf and dumb. Others seem to have a "nervous deafness." Dr. Emil Amberg of Detroit noted that this "nervous deafness" is "in the upper ranks of society much more frequently in females than in males. The subjects of it are generally of a sallow complexion, of a phlegmatic disposition, with a thin, cold skin and languid circulation...
Anatole France's The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife, presented by the Studio Theatre Players of Buffalo, had to do with a husband whose wife's affliction saddened him until she was restored to speech. Then she talked so much that he was glad when he became deaf...
When the lights went up again, spectators saw the instrument which had been accomplishing these wonders. It looked like a machine on which Novelist Jules Verne and Cartoonist Rube Goldberg had collaborated. It looked most like a giant dumb-bell (14 ft. high), hinged where a giant would grip it. The two knobs were spotted with "eyes," each fitted with lenses and lights, which projected "stars" on the ceiling. In the handle was machinery governing the motions of the planets...
...satins, furs was there, and a rajah-worthy collection of diamond jewelry. Scant room remained that day on the pier for the effects of any other traveler whose last initial was D. Yet Mrs. Dodge had declared only $17,000 worth of imports. "Did she think we were that dumb?" asked inspectors who had pounced on her ostentatious quantities of luggage, appraised its contents of contraband at about $100,000. If some European tipster, scenting the obvious, warned U. S. authorities of Mrs. Dodge's approach, he was entitled to the usual 25% reward - an easy...
...vice of Chambers. Today there is scarcely a hamlet without its Chamber and the U.S. Chamber has an ad-packed magazine called Nation's Business, the only real success in its field. The great virtue of the thousand and one Chambers is that they give voice to an otherwise dumb world of Business. That this voice is sometimes vapid is a peccadillo which sophisticates magnify...