Word: blind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cordial friendship which many Englishmen enjoy with individual Americans . . . must not blind us either to the intense concentration of the American people at large upon what they consider their own interests, or to the prevailing unfriendliness of America, as expressed by its politicians and journalists, to this country...
Till he showed us for our good- Deaf to mirth and blind to scorn- How we might have best withstood Burdens that he has not borne...
...That in 1921 a Swiss corporation, really a blind for the original German owners, recovered the money from the U. S. Government with the connivance of Messrs. Daugherty, Miller, and other politicos...
...LORD OF LABRAZ-Pio Baroja -Knopf ($2.50). The Spanish hail Señor Baroja as their most popular living talespinner. He writes a little like Dickens, a little like Stevenson, always like a Spaniard-that is, with bold light, harsh shading. His story here is quite simple-a blind nobleman in a priest-ridden hill town quixotically shoulders his brother's misdeeds, earning only calumny and spite from the populace, renouncing society and going to wander, Lear-like, over the bleak table-lands with a wronged barmaid for his Cordelia, a Basque beggar for Poor Tom. It is fiction...
...them and you have started a fight. Last week the franc plunged suddenly from 40 to the dollar to nearly 50. Frenchmen, clutching crisp or crinkly banknotes, felt their wealth oozing from them as insidiously as though they grasped a handful of slime. What to do? "Naturally"-with blind instinctive no-logic-they hit out. At whom? At Herriot, whose ambitious folly had overturned the Briand Cabinet (TIME, July 26)? Yes. M. Herriot was mobbed, though he escaped. (See "Presidents, Premiers.") But there was only one M. Herriot. At whom else to strike? Obviously at Les Américains-purse...