Word: mute
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...administration has started to accomplish its work and it has done it silently and efficiently. The wheels have begun to turn but the movement is made without wasted commotion. The simple announcement of a list of names follows in a mute procession the other changes that have been brought about within the University since September. It remains to be seen whether or not the steps are in the right direction but the usual rumblings of University machinery have been absent. The shelvings and the appointments have been perpetrated with ruthless composure...
...onetime assistant editor (Babies: Just Babies). broadcaster (Best & Co.), and magazine contributor (Liberty and Cosmopolitan), the White House and its extroverted occupants have provided a lively background for her yarn. Easy to identify are Mrs. Ball's children Anna Eleanor ("Sistie") and Curtis ("Buzzie") who show a mute and dazzled Scamper the White House foyer, the State dining room, the grand stairway, the Presidential study. No pedagog, Mrs. Dall imparts to her readers only as much of Washington's historical background as Dave and Babs can remember. A direct literary descendant of Beatrix Potter's "Peter Rabbit...
Hearing lectures and sermons in "signs" and watching choristers "sign" their hymns in unison is fairly common for U. S. deaf-mutes in urban centres. In Manhattan there are three congregations for them, Catholic, Episcopal and Jewish. Once a week Jews attend services supervised by Mrs. Tanya Nash, widow of a rabbi, who provides guest rabbis and interpreters. Because deaf persons cannot understand a person whose face or hands they cannot see, the parts of the Jewish ritual in which the rabbi's back is turned on the congregation have been eliminated. Catholic deaf-mutes in New York, Philadelphia...
Special services for mutes are given in Chicago by Methodist Rev. Philip J. Hasenstab and Rev. Henry S. Rutherford, who alternate in carrying their work throughout the Midwest. In San Francisco Lutheran Pastor Charles Jaetner conducts services twice a month. Jews, Catholics and Protestants in Atlanta may attend special deaf-mute services every Sunday at St. Mark's Methodist Church. In Dallas deaf-mutes meet weekly in the First Baptist Church. Mrs. Clara E. Hemphill is the leading sign language teacher of that city. Her great concern is to persuade Episcopalians to provide mute services because she believes...
Poor Daniel. It may be that he was not wanted, and that the end of the tale will be disclosed with mute clarity when a skeleton in a burlap bag is washed ashore on the coast of Connecticut. But when the grim remains, whitened by wind and rain, are laid gently to rest, they will have the sympathy and respect of every true sportsman. Daniel has been a noble beast, and, like all good dogs...