Word: smaltz
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...Only 10% of the teachers in schools for the deaf are deaf. Others hear and compel their pupils to try to speak. Those who learn, with few exceptions like President Kenner, enunciate in flat, dead tones. Gesticulated Rev. Warren M. Smaltz of Lebanon, Pa.: "One could wish that the thousand and one weird English dialects now imparted to deaf-mutes in school could, by some magic, be transformed into as many vocational skills. Certainly it is more socially desirable for deaf people to write their way through the world, than for them to be without means of livelihood...