Word: mutes
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...Mute, a sad-eyed man holds out his hands in silent frustration. In The Indomitable Bather, Ayrton catches the humor and pathos of a more familiar subject, "a small boy who finds it bloody cold in the water, but his passionate desire to stay there is greater than the physical discomfort. He feels violently about it, but doesn't say anything, just stands there shivering to death, poor little blighter...
...created would someday engulf it. Hardly reckoned upon has been the spectre of human devolution into protoplasmic mechanisms. Today, the public turns apprehensively to these tight-lipped toilers in Social Relations Laboratories the country over for polysyllabic reassurance. It is to be hoped that the experts will not stand mute to the challenge...
...same long training Bartel began three decades ago, has started by giving religious instruction to children. In the sentence, "Suffer the little children to come unto me," he shows "suffer" by a natural soothing gesture, "the" with the little finger of the right hand as expressed in the deaf-mute alphabet, "little children" by a baby-rocking gesture and "come unto me" by pointing to himself...
Some 700 of Berlin's deaf-mutes are members of the church. Once they worshiped in Berlin's Evangelical cathedral, in the Soviet sector. As the cold war grew hotter, many West Berlin members were afraid to go there, so Bartel borrowed St. Matthew's, in the U.S. sector, to hold Sunday afternoon services. Before he retires, he hopes to find and equip a church which the deaf-mute worshipers of West Berlin can call their...
...image of doctors muttering midnight incantations over the sufferings of mute beasts is ridiculous enough to make most non-Hearst readers laugh at the anti-vivisectionists. They should. Two years ago the anti-vivisectionists paraded a steady stream of pet-owners to the State House for hearings on the Miles-Nolan vivisection bill. They have now a marshaled stack of theological arguments, most of them stating that the merciful shall obtain mercy, and that what has been formed by God should not be deformed by man. In some places the anti-vivisectionists have become powerful enough to curtail medical research...