Word: voicelessness
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...interests of fair play, we, the undersigned, feel called upon to rise in defence of the voiceless middle classes. The middle classes have-never done anything to the playwright. On the contrary they have been very nice about buying tickets and even sitting through entire productions. We wish Miss Nichols and her pals would lay off Apple Sauces, Abies Irish Roses, and White Collarses and give us more dress suit dramas. We favor uplift. Yah! "Y'rs. "GEORGE. "HENRY. "HERM...
...crowd rose shouting for Nurmi, the incomparable, the undefeatable, who once ran the mile in 4:10 2/5, who has innumerable times defeated Willie Ritola, Joie Ray (TIME, July 28, Jan. 19 et seq.)-a Nurmi like the After, of the patent-medicine advertisements. While he ran, they sat voiceless, staring at a Nurmi whose legs churned up and down, whose shoulders rolled, whose chest heaved-one who unmistakably resembled that unhappy journeyman of the piles, hookworm, gallstones, liver complaint, kidney trouble, Bright's disease, lost manhood-poor Before. They saw him, with a desperate display of iron willpower...
...cast a twilight about the old house, blurring the trees that lined the avenue up which no one came. Everyone else, indeed, had gone long ago, but still they stayed-beauties, wits, gallants, a decent sheet pulled over the face of each in the silence and shadow of the voiceless gallery...
...screen, like dyes filtered through fathomless deep-sea canisters, colors fainted, burned, swelled, darkened, dwindled, incredibly clear; patterns crossed, shapes passed, cubes collided, vortices spun down through hell, sucking the sight with them, and the earth, like a small ball knitted by music out of cloud and fire, whirled voiceless through the gulf where sound and color merge. Amazed were the listeners, for surely those in the dark hall listened with their eyes. When an enthusiastic dolt began to clap, they hissed him down as if he had interrupted the first movement of a sonata. But at the concert...
Before a gathering of skeptics, members of the Baltimore Medical Society, stood three voiceless men. They had been brought there by Dr. J. E. Mac-kenty of the Manhattan Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital to demonstrate an invention of his whereby, he claims, the voiceless may speak. These voiceless ones had been operated on for cancer of the throat; their larynxes removed. They were unable to breathe through their noses. Instead, they obtained air through holes cut in their necks. Over these air-holes they wore pads invented by Dr. Mackenty, from which tubes went up to mechanisms made...