Word: blind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walking in the shopping district of the Capital, the President observed an elderly blind man groping his way through the traffic. He went to him directly, instructed a secret service man to see the blind man across the street in safety, and followed to see that it was well done...
...less physical atmosphere of Harvard Square and its neighborhood has changed little in the past three or four year. Blind Dan still sells his papers near the subway station; Herr Engel continues to bestride the Square; Eddie Morris is still the acrobatic, iron-voiced announcer at sporting events; Dennis Enright has not changed from the brown color which has always fentured his attire; and Mike continues to predict victories over Crimson fees
...sure, anything that called for an immediate copyright. But still, The Crime is never very funny, and the editors could not be blind to the fact that the Radcliffe contributions were well above their usual standard. A mot, for instance...
...indeed, those writers who are so muddled by the mechanical multiplicity and confusion of existence as to be blind to the simple which is beneath all the confusion will never, can never expect to keep live in literature. The clever, and this is a generation of the clever, are too engrossed with surface delights to sense the bitterness or beauty of the depots. America is apparently devoid of the comic spirit. She must buffoon or burrow herself into the earth of realism. And buffoonery is not lasting. Mr. Sherman has illumined that fact many times with the light of common...
...with such bald statements, especially in race-crazed Detroit. Moreover, Mr. Darrow's attitude toward the negro problem could well be brought to the attention of fire-eating white supremacists and sentimental advocates of racial equality. Hysterical pity for the down trodden negro from one kind of idealist, and blind recrimination of the black race from another, are equally futile. Any constructive settlement for this problem can only come from just such cool consideration of the peculiar necessities arising from the drugging influence of recent slavery and the undeniable difference of racial capabilities between black man and white...