Word: morely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> The American Society for the Hard of Hearing estimates a total of 20,000,000 dull-eared U. S. citizens (3,000,000 school children, 15 to 17,000,000 adults), 50,000 who are "stone" deaf, i.e., those born totally deaf or who became so before learning to talk...
It seems to me more likely this was the valuation set by the learned Senator.
At first glance, few people would think of Walter Lippmann as a great detective. Courteous, well-read, softspoken, with a vocabulary greater than Sherlock Holmes's (and far more normal habits), he could talk international finance with Morgan partners, politics with Presidents, and seem much more like a reassuring...
What set Detective Lippmann to brooding on the mystery was a Washington rumor that after Christmas President Roosevelt will declare his intention about a third term. Arousing Amateur Lippmann's well-bred scorn were the feverish efforts of other sleuths to solve the case by strong-arm methods. To...
"Sonny, that fellow is on the other side but I admire him more than any other man. That man is a monolith. There are no seams that the frost can get through. He is of one piece."