Word: blind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large quantities one may assume that the public is interested only in that slander which has claim to authenticity. On the other hand if the returns are small the indication will be that human nature considers a whispering gallery to be an instructive body even though, its members be blind, deaf, and as far as real facts are concerned--dumb...
...money-the McAuley Mission also wanted 20,000 new friends. If Mr. Markle gave the whole amount there would be no excuse for going on. Mr. Markle shook his head. He would give $100,000-not a cent less. He told his own story, how he had been blind for a year in 1908, how Christ and a famous German surgeon had brought back his sight. "I don't want people to think I've got all the money in God's earth," he said. President Fletcher took the donation, with a proviso-$40,000 would...
...Danville, Ill., Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 90, one-time famed Speaker of the House, was unable to vote last week for the first time since 1860 when he cast his ballot for Abraham Lincoln. In Brooklyn three other Lincoln voters (one of them blind) went to the polls, voted for modification of the Volstead Act. ([ Montcalm County, Mich., has its heroine-Mrs. Ileea M. Henkel, onetime schoolteacher, wife of the former sheriff who was fatally wounded while arresting a drunk. She was appointed to serve her husband's unexpired term and conducted a vigorous war on the liquor...
...Perhaps the most pleasant feature of the book is the simple, Honest manner in which the subject is approached and discussed. Congressman Luce is not a blind optimist but neither is he a pessimist. Therefore his opinions are of genuine value."--Cleveland Topics...
Cairo, Egypt, has its fundamentalists. Dr. Taha Hussein., blind poet, went on trial there last week, charged with traducing in poetry the infallibility of the Koran. There are statements in the latter "which must not be accepted as historically accurate," he ventured to say. The Moslem University of El-Azhar, outraged at the charge, supports the prosecution. One lawyer defending the poet has been ostracized by his family...