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Word: mutes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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ANNE SULLIVAN MACY: The Story Behind Helen Keller-Nella Braddy-Doubleday, Doran ($3). Helen Keller, the blind deaf-mute who has become a highly educated and intelligent woman, is one of the most famed figures in the world today, but few have ever heard of the miracle-worker who raised Helen Keller from the worse-than-dead. Her name is Anne Sullivan Macy; in this book Authoress Braddy tells her little-known story. Mrs. Macy has lived continuously with Helen Keller for 45 years except for two occasions. Fourteen years older than her lifelong pupil, she was well fitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Leading the Blind | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

...Shaw's Pygmalion. Between her husband's death in the Boer War and her son's death in the World War, she became famed for having her own way, once had a ton of tanbark dumped in Manhattan's 42nd Street to mute traffic noises during her performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 4, 1933 | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

...exiled Spanish Court circles at Fontainebleau morose courtiers remarked that succession to the Throne now rests with ex-King Alfonso's second son, Don Jaime, born a deaf mute and with difficulty educated up to croaking talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Real Princess | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

Last month Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland opened a Music Week at Columbia College in Dubuque, Iowa, crying: "We have become mute in the Catholic Church. We have become silent worshippers sitting in our pews almost as lifeless as the wood of those pews. . . ." Bishop Schrembs quoted Pope Pius XI, who issued an encyclical on the subject in 1929, and Walter Damrosch who told him : "You have the most wonderful music in the world . . . and you have robbed your people of the privilege of community singing. . . ." Bishop Schrembs recalled hearing 7,000 railroad workers sing a Credo at Lourdes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Singing at Mass | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...great New York morning papers, Times and Herald Tribune, were meticulous in printing all the testimony, all the news-but no feature stories admiring the fighting spirit of Prosecutor Pecora. Edi- torially they were practically mute. The arch-Republican Herald Tribune spoke up once to the effect that the capital gains ? losses tax is a bad law. (No Manhattan paper made clear the point that the House of Morgan was opposed to that tax clause when it was written.) The Times printed a similar editorial and another entitled "Why It Hurts." Sorrowfully but reverently it found that the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hare & Hounds | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

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