Word: blind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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False Stairway is Blind...
...counteract this morbid tendency the generous of the world have succeeded in devising methods of communicating for the deaf. One will recall the experiments which enabled blind, deaf, mute Helen Keller finally to speak. In reading lips most deaf people have become so adept that no longer do cinema actors dare blaspheme or talk ribaldry before the camera. Incidentally the cinema has been a great blessing for the deaf...
...Norwalk, Conn., one Joseph Beres, restaurant proprietor, went out duck shooting with a buddy. All day they crouched in a blind. Few ducks came their way. Proprietor Beres grew restless, racked his brains for diversion, hit upon a scheme. Taking a 50-cent piece out of his pocket, he said to his friend, "If you can shoot it out of my hand, it's yours." After some wrangling, the details of the wager were satisfactorily arranged. Mr. Beres took his place, holding the 50? aloft between thumb and forefinger. His friend put a shell in his shotgun, drew...
Harden was not sent. His comment upon those who did not send him is characteristic: "Whom the gods would destroy they first make blind...
...mistakes in his work. "Even the graduates of our best schools of journalism are untrained in the natural sciences. The typical journalist is grossly ignorant of music, architecture, painting and literature. His knowledge of esthetic principles is little above that of the average policeman. He emerges from the university blind to the best things of life, and he will blind his readers to them"-Professor Nelson Antrim Crawford, Kansas State Agricultural College...