Word: blind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business, which she abandoned at the time she entered Congress, she will not reenter. She expects to live on her farm. The chief point that she is proud of in her Congressional career is the passage of a bill providing free transportation through the mails for publications for the blind...
Claudia, after being dramatically rescued from her faithless English spouse, falls in love with her rescuer and is busily engaged in studying the somewhat involved international and interstate divorce laws when the rescuer goes blind and betakes himself to a school for disabled soldiers...
MIGHTY LAK' A ROSE.-Bull Morgan of Murderers' Den and Hard-Boiled Mollie Malone were no proper company for poor little blind Rose Duncan. However, she gets into their clutches and Jimmie Harrison, hero, goes to the rescue. There is a good bloody fight between Bull and Jimmie, which ends up in blind Rose being squashed all over the floor by a chair swung in the stalwart hands of Bull...
Claude Monet, blind French painter and last of the great Impressionists, recovered his eyesight after a surgical operation at which his oldest friend, Georges Clemenceau, stood at his side to cheer him. Monet, 83, has been blind for several years. It is not likely that he will paint another of the remarkable " series" which made him famous. But at least he has recovered, for himself, what he chiefly sought in art,- the pageant of moving light and air. Going out at dawn into a field near his Normandy home, he would paint a swift " impression" of its row of little...
...first recorded appearance of the "King of the World". A Buddhist legend, a myth if you will; this King appeared in India and Siam over two thousand years ago. And "he blessed the people with a golden apple with the figure of a Lamb above it. The blind received their sight, the dumb spoke, the deaf heard, the crippled freely moved and the dead arose, wherever the eyes of the King of the World rested"! This same King also appeared at a monastery in Mongolia in 1890, and prophesied the World War, the tall of eight great kings...