Word: muted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orders and rules, to thieve when & where they will. At the premier's elbow is a sage elder statesman (aged 12) who acts as moderator between the boss and the upstarts. The rest of the camp is composed of a passive majority, a child-mother, and a deaf mute...
...general conviction maintained by attackers of the Miles-Nolan bill, which would legalize medical experimentation upon five percent of Boston's annual 3500 crop of stray dogs, is that the brethren of the medical profession are all natural sadists who derive orgiastic joy from the sufferings of mute beasts. A plethora of theological arguments are also adduced to show that what God hath made, no mere man should rend asunder...
...when the spirits she produces mechanically for her seances begin to appear unasked. The opera in Menotti's hands and those of the Ballet Society is far more than the usual Metropolitan parade of dummies with voices; Menotti probes far into the characters of the degenerate medium, her mute servant and kind daughter, and the pathetic customers who make the seance an unforgettable scene...
Next Case. In Brooklyn, Jonas Lowenhaar was acquitted of using "loud and boisterous" language when the discerning judge perceived that Lowenhaar was a mute...
Eyesore. In Houston, a deaf-mute husband applied for a divorce from his deaf-mute wife; he was sick & tired, he averred, of her sign-language nagging...