Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first line against the gentlemen of the fourth estate. James Joyce, as he was entering a hospital to undergo an operation which would determine whether he should irrevocably lose his sight, was offered two hundred pounds by a reporter for an article on "How it Feels To Be Going Blind"; Mr. Joyce exercised the pleasant privilege of having the man thrown out on his car. The Harvard student cannot do that. The Harvard student cannot even retreat to the Fijis or Manchonkuo. He is defenseless...
...sheer bulk bulged through splintering plate glass windows. The Governor's motorcycle escort rode one down. A pack of them upturned a policeman and his screaming horse. There never had been so many people gathered anywhere in the nation since Armistice Day. Nobody in town, not even the blind news dealers and the invalids and sick folk in their beds-for the bands brayed ten solid hours-will soon forget New York's NRA parade...
...witness placed Ernst Torgler in a Friedrichstrasse restaurant on the night of the fire and completely discredited van der Lubbe's Communist standing. They described the latter as "weak, vainglorious, partially blind and frequently in debt." German Communist leaders claimed they had never heard of van der Lubbe until he was arrested running out of the Reichstag during the fire. An anonymous witness declared that van der Lubbe was an intimate of famed Nazi Captain Ernst Roehm...
...moody music during a tour of Europe, he was requested to write something for the Imperial Theatres. With his brother Modeste as librettist, weary Piotr Ilyitch sat down and produced his last opera, lolanthe, a little idyll about a princess of Naples who did not know she was blind because she had been so from birth. Cured by Ibn Hakia, who strokes the long white beard appropriate to a Moorish sage, she marries the noble whose love made her cure possible. Tchaikovsky speedily became engrossed in this wistful idyll, achieved a brightly lyrical score rare among his mature works...
...when Crimp's baby came, and it was yellow, everybody knew the reason. Messenger wanted to kill Crimp, but instead he moved out of her cabin and took Grammy with him. Soon afterwards he went away on the "underground," trying to "make free." But it was the "blind underground"; a few days later he was found in a swamp with his head bashed in. Grammy grew up with a horror of "makin' free." And he liked the plantation life. He was smart with mules and horses, like his daddy, and quickly rose to be the most responsible slave...