Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...didn't answer, but started across the porch at the whitecaps. He was thinking that the new baby of the squatters up the woods showed signs of cretinism * * * Even Dean Briggs, reflected the Vagabond, said that freshmen were all alike. And he remembered the fable of the seven blind...
Were Greta Garbo to marry a blind War hero and thereafter be arrested on suspicion of having murdered him, the account of her trial would certainly be front-paged. It would give the Press hysterics if: 1) her defense counsel, the greatest criminal lawyer of his day, were to become desperately enamoured of her; 2) the presiding judge were a sadist and notorious lecher...
...cinema star, Mrs. Paradine did not become a public character, the talk of London, until she was accused of poisoning blind Colonel Paradine, V. C. But like Garbo she was glamorous, passionate, enigmatic-a femme fatale. She complicated life unbearably enough for her lawyer Sir Malcolm Keane, hitherto a devoted husband, without having his young wife Gay antagonize Judge Horfield by squelching his lickerish advances. And again like Garbo, Mrs. Paradine was of humble Scandinavian birth, had once worked in a barber shop. So there had been no insuperable barrier between her and her husband's valet, handsome William...
...that he has a funeral to go to, gives him the day off. The clerk goes for a stroll in the park, gets mistaken for the playground commissioner, then accidentally gets the job. He keeps it until he finds out that his political patron is using him as a blind to sell defective ladders and trapezes. Then he stops making advances to the patron's wife (Lilyan Tashman), resigns his job, gets a black eye, totters home in time to appeal to the sympathies of his spouse...
Prospector Near Romeo, Mich., J. W. Fowler, 73, near-blind pauper worn from a lifetime of prospecting for gold, was informed that a $15,000 legacy had been awaiting him for 70 years. Asked what he would do with his money, Prospector Fowler's dim eyes gleamed. Said he: "I know of a wonderful mining country in Canada where a man can make a fortune...