Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feamy schooner around these perils. The plot is somewhat standard: Papa Hoffman, Americanized German, whose name has for years been synonymous with the best of beer, sends his sons to France to fight the Fatherland. During their absence the Volsteadian debacle closes his lawful business and establishes the lucrative blind pig and speakeasy. Conflict between his remaining son, who now manufactures near beer, "the nearest we will ever got to beer," and Nails, his erst-while truck driver, and present racket king, brings the action to a head with shootings, typewriters, pineapples, and fights in the approved style, with...
Born the seventh child of a seventh child on Christmas Day, Paul Manship was told he was lucky. At 14 he was painting a still-life of a green glazeware milk jug when his brother told him the jug was brown. Lucky Paul Manship was color blind. He wasted no time switching to clay. After three years in Sculptor Solon Borglum's studio and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, he rambled through Spain (1908). Next year he won the Prix de Rome. From 1916 to 1925 he was too busy to hold a one-man show...
...solve. First Bogard takes Claude on a bombing trip in his plane, rather hoping that he will be shot. Claude and Ronnie return the courtesy by inviting Bogard to come with them on an expedition to blow up a German cruiser in Kiel. On this escapade, Claude gets shot blind; Diana, almost prepared to let him down at last, has to do the right thing, stay with him. Bogard does the right thing also; he volunteers for a suicide assignment. There is only one Right Thing left to do. Ronnie and Claude do it by beating Bogard...
...They might put that on his tombstone," remarks the blind brother...
This course is only for the most intrepid sould who pride themselves either upon linguistic ability or blind courage. Freshmen who have not heard that French B is one of the most difficult courses in College usually take it in a fit of ambition to pass off language requirements rapidly. Occasionally, however, an unusual upperclassman accepts the challenge to learn all the grammar in a few months, read 1500 pages of moderately difficult literature, and attend sessions five times a week under Dr. Herrick's tutelage...