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...noses. Instead, they obtained air through holes cut in their necks. Over these air-holes they wore pads invented by Dr. Mackenty, from which tubes went up to mechanisms made in the simulacrum of the human vocal cords. A stubby tube like a pipestem in the mouth of each mute man enabled him to modulate the curious articulations made possible by the apparatus. The mutes addressed the skeptical surgeons. Audibly, precisely, they droned commonplace words in unearthly monotones. Dr. Mackenty claims that his invention would save the lives of many who yearly refuse to undergo operations, that might save their...
...within the power of the state. They pointed out that, according to the ancient law, if there is the least nick in the long smooth blade with which the beast is killed, the meat is not strictly kosher, nor is it if the slaughterer be a deaf mute, an idiot, a minor, or a non-Jew. How can all these things be surely ascertained in regard, say, to a lamb chop? Is unknowing transgression a sin? That was what the packers wanted to know...
...near the American Embassy in protest against the exclusion law. In this country a man who committed suicide, however elaborately, in rebuke to the foreign policy of Japan would rightly be regarded as a fool; one active worker would be of more value to the cause than a thousand mute inhabitants of the grave. Yet in Japan the illogical and unknown hero is now to be interred in a military cemetery where lie the bodies of Marquis Okuma and of General Nogi, the hero of the Russo-Japanese...
...painting and sculpture at the Chicago Art Institute. The pictures, 325 in number, had been chosen by a jury which for many weeks searched the U. S., selecting from proposed entries those which best recommended themselves to the eye, with a continual hope of discovering among young artists some mute, inglorious Millet, some untrumpeted Whistler or coy Corot. The pictures were put on view; prizes were awarded. To Eugene F. Savage of Manhattan went the Frank G. Logan medal, carrying with it $1,500, for his painting Recessional, which showed (lifesize) the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, fire in their...
...leaving millions of dollars and admirers. He was, it may be affrmed with security, one of the greatest singers the world has ever known-and one of the most beloved. Yet his tomb, in Naples, most musical of cities, has been observed to be without a single flower-mute witness to the evanescence of man's favor...