Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...audience or by people hard of hearing, one must speak distinctly and slowly, not loudly. A stump speaker's shouting is only a blur of tones to his listeners. In old people, the receiving apparatus of the ear becomes less elastic than in youth; it does not respond quickly to short waves (shrill) sounds. Words or notes of music following in fast succession run together and cannot be distinguished. The condition is presbyotia (old age hearing). Presbyotes cannot hear cricket chirps, nor high pitched yodeling...
...Noose-now her name in white lights. Arthur Hopkins has cast her opposite Hal Skelly, as a slangy lady of the burlesque wheel, who is unfortunately in love with a no-account, shiftless husband (Hal Skelly), a "comic hoofer" without "a laugh above the hips," without timbre to respond to her affection...
...told that 30 of 42 Republican National Committeemen from whom it had elicited expressions refused to believe that President Coolidge would ignore a party call. Governor Fuller of Massachusetts led a New England chorus of even stronger effect: Calvin Coolidge would be wanted again and he would have to respond. The President's closest political friend of all, Chairman William M. Butler of the Republican National Committee, steadfastly refused to be convinced that all was said and done. New Jersey Republicans actually formed a Coolidge Draft Club, sayng: "We draft soldiers in time of war; why should we not draft...
...physicians insist upon sacred periods of leisure, they must associate with one another, either as partners or as a corporation, and they must see to it that one or more of their number shall be constantly ready to respond to night calls...
...difficult to say how the Law students will respond to the proposal at first: it is even likely that no great number of them will sign up this spring. But there is a place for such an establishment, and if it is successful in operation it ought to attract a large number of students. I think that first year men particularly will make use of it. Most of them know very few people when they come here and will probably welcome a club eating system as a means of be coming acquatured with each other...