Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unsophisticated because they put their trust in an unsuccessful school system. Dr. George Sylvester Counts attacks the major weaknesses of modern educational methods in the current New Republic. His target is the downright hypocrisy of pedagogical institution, which would be too upright. The way in which the indecisive, blind policy of the public schools turns out a product highly uneducated is convincingly set forth. Dr. Counts takes as his thesis the faults of the schools which would straddle every question, be all things to all men, a course which emasculates their powers of leadership and blights the initiative and resolution...
With careful factual detail Author Boden tells of a Derbyshire miner's life, with all its withering working details. The narrow tunnels, the coal seams in which men pick lying sideways all day, the half-blind ponies, the constant fear make up a pretty picture of hell. Above ground things are complicated by lockouts, strikes, broken-spirited drunkenness, and filth. Danny is luckier than most: he has a good though poverty-stricken home, and he has a love affair with a coal-country girl that Author Boden sketches with extraordinary tenderness. But shades of the prison-house begin...
...sculpture her tea gown, her furniture which "does not match." But the son's young nephew Jerry (John Beal, a capable juvenile just graduated from Pennsylvania's Mask & Wig Club) does approve. He approves so thoroughly that Actor Anders, on the point of losing his wife through blind maternal allegiance, gets his back up. against the family at last, takes his wife away An-other Language, cast and acted with intelligence, provides adult playgoing...
...essential to avoid 'blind alleys' in a business career," he continued, "but men too often discard obscure jobs because of their fear of 'blind alleys,' and thus lose that valuable experience in the elementary phases of a business which is so valuable to the executive later...
...most of our leading streetcorners blind persons will now find maps in high relief," said Long Heinrich. "By feeling these maps the blind will be able to direct themselves to subway stations, street car and bus stops, and generally to find their way around Berlin with the minimum possible inconvenience...