Word: blind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this talk about the young folks going to the dogs and drinking themselves blind is pure nonsense. They are youthful and filled with sap and vinegar, but that does not mean that they are a gang of inebriates." In such a manner, W. E. "Pussyfoot" Johnson, former Federal prohibition agent, smilingly told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday that college men today are "all right...
...Mayor Swarthout of Grand Rapids: ". . . Can the blind lead the blind...
...accrediting such views to these men, the movement --for such it must then be called--is directly flying in the face of an opposite one in Europe. There the young thinkers of the universities are said to have abandoned the thoughts of the social philosophers for a complete and blind surrender to faith. Whether the Americans are one step ahead or behind remains where all decisions of this kind have remained--with the individual. At least Mr. Croy avoids dogmatism in his own code, a novelty in a day when inventors and manufacturers are become the most downright of theologians...
Henchman Edward H. Kennedy Jr. was reported to have cried: "It has been estimated that there are 15,000 blind pigs in Detroit. I think that is about correct. Each one of those pigs has at least ten regular customers. If the owners will get after those ten customers that alone will mean 150,000 votes for Johnny Smith-enough to put him over...
Touts & breeders, millionaires & jockeys froze with fear last week when Santrock, racehorse, crashed into the rail in a race at Jamaica, L. I. Santrock, blind in one eye, is dangerous. Bumping the rail he could not see, the horse pulled a blinker over the other eye. In total darkness he smashed terrified through the rail, turned somersaults, crashed through both rails on the backstretch. His jockey was thrown, badly bruised. Experts felt it lucky Santrock did not kill both himself and jockey...