Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...love of woman versus the love of art. Having chosen the latter and abandoned Irene, the sculptor discovers that, in killing his love, he has also killed his art. None the less these disastrous lovers are in the end reunited, and in death they are not divided. The mute nun murmers her "pax" over their falling bodies, and one seems to hear a voice out of the cloud in the great closing line from one of the earlier plays: "He is a God of Love...
...beads, she had set out a few days earlier for a dance at Fort Apache. It was known that an Apache buck had accompanied her. It was later learned that an Apache buck had made unwelcome advances to her. Several young tribesmen were held for questioning. All were characteristically mute. None was indicted for the girl's death. No Apache seemed to know anything about the Schmerler case...
...every one congregated there for a demi-taste which one is served there (courtesy of the Corporation) after lunch and dinner. We liked the way the morning papers are stacked at the entrance of the hall, with no more urgent a spur to the conscience than a mute, coin-filled plate on guard...
Alfonso's third move was to let it be known?unofficially?that he would give up his own rights to the throne, not in favor of his easy bleeding firstborn, the Prince of the Asturias, nor in favor of his deaf-mute second son Don Jaime, but in favor of his third son, 17-year-old Don Juan Carlos, a cadet last week in the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devonshire...
...much discussed by prizefight enthusiasts. This was because the winner was Paul Berlenbach. onetime (1925-26) light heavyweight champion of the world. As many has-beens have done before him, but with more public sympathy than most. he was beginning to try to "come back." Berlenbach was a deaf mute until he was 14. Then a kite he was flying brushed against a high tension wire and the shock made him able to hear and speak, though with a difficulty which was later to make people think him "punch drunk." In 1923, when he was a Manhattan taxidriver, Berlenbach learned...