Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long as the government sponsors blind complacency with the national attitude in past wars, it can hardly pretend to be a champion of world peace. The overpowering appeal of the sound of trumpets and the march of soldiers cannot help making men readier to fight future wars on small provocation. If "peace-loving" statesmen cannot devise effective means for maintaining permanent peace, the least that can be expected is that they should not make efforts to rekindle the appeal of militarism...
...committee from Donald Randall Richberg, Chicago attorney. With Judge Wilkerson's 1922 injunction in mind, said he: "He set aside the constitutional guarantees of liberty of contract and free speech. He permitted his court to be used as a strikebreaking agency in behalf of the railway managements. ... In his blind partisanship and antagonism to labor unions. Judge Wilkerson has not followed the law as laid clown by the Supreme Court, but has attempted to write...
...must be remembered that there are also innumerable women who for long years have been feeding, dressing, guarding an army of derelicts, armless, legless, blind, faceless, gas-etched trunks, and shellshocked, insane minds. You may not often see one. They are kept close, cherished from indecent display, but they exist and THEY are the army of martyrs...
...little white house near the Forest of Fontainebleau an aged, paralytic blind-man has lain for months listening to the poems of Walt Whitman. Sometimes his wife would read them to him, sometimes young Eric Fenby, a Yorkshireman like himself. But it was always Whitman the blindman asked for, preferably the later poems written when Whitman was paralyzed, dying. In Queen's Hall, London, last week, a great crowd marveled at the Songs of Farewell which blind Frederick Delius had written for double choir and orchestra. The words were Whitman's: How sweet the silent backward tracings...
Twenty-five years ago most Britishers had never heard of Delius. Sir Thomas Beecham undertook to make him known. Few Britishers remember seeing him hale and active. Two years ago when Sir Thomas conducted a six-day Delius festival, the composer was already paralyzed, nearly blind, had to attend the concerts in a wheel chair. Two months ago in honor of his 70th birthday British Broadcasting Corp. radioed Delius music far & wide...