Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faint shadow of a guttural. Her mood, tuned with her circumstances and what she knows about life, alters from fierce, bewildered anguish, to a cold, shrewd determination to get even with the world, and then to a tolerant, warmly human sophistication. Best shot: Miss Chatterton meeting the deaf and dumb boy who is being palmed...
...Milwaukee the Chicago Wishbones, deaf and dumb basketball team, played the Milwaukee Silent Club, also deaf and mute. The referee, who had trouble making himself understood because he did not know sign-language, was annoyed by a strange, mocking noise that issued from the throats of the deaf and dumb spectators, hurrrumphgffheeeeeeeee. The Wishbones...
...more delicate senses. A child is given two crude, one-string fiddles, one with frets, one without. By comparing noises made on both, he can soon fit in the missing frets, play the second fiddle. Children who can read are encouraged to act each sentence out in dumb show. The system tries to make all of a pupil's acts coordinate with all his senses. Through ideological gymnastics, an intellect is developed by the exercise of attention, comparison, judgment...