Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What do we think of England?" she said in answer to a correspondent's question. "What would any country think of another which held it in subjugation? It is vain to expect justice from a race so blind and drunk with the arrogance of power,* the bitter prejudice of race and creed and color, drunk moreover with abysmal ignorance...
...learns the futility of his endeavor from a seasoned agent of the law (Jimmy Durante). Gangsters try to kill him. He is saved by Durante at the lamentable expense of Durante's own life. But this is only a minim of catastrophe. The heroine's brother goes blind from poison booze. The hero's father gets life imprisonment for murder...
When Peter Karmel crashed his airplane and lost his arm in Galicia he woke up in the dismal fairyland of his cracked brain. His head hummed like a drunken beehive, but above that noise he heard the menacing approach of a blind man's tapping stick, saw visions of a beautiful porcelain woman who comforted him. To flee the blind man he hides away in an obscure hotel in Budapest, drinks brandy by the bottle, neat. Finally his longing for the porcelain woman overcomes his terror of the blind man. He leaves the hotel to try to find...
...sorry that Mrs. Sporleder takes me so seriously. For neither Steve, his mother nor I would miss a TIME broadcast for worlds. The note to you was merely because of the "blind spot" in Steve's vocabulary when it came to "boycott" and what his imagination made of it... JOSHUA S. SARASOHN...
ARABIA FELIX - Bertram Thomas - Scribner ($5). Last large geographical blind spot in world cartographers' eyes was the great desert Rub' al Khali, "empty quarter" of Arabia. After skirting its southern fringe for more than two months, on Jan. 10, 1931, Explorer Thomas and 13 Arabs made tracks across; on Feb. 4 they emerged at Doha, on the Persian Gulf. The journey emptied geography of ignorance, emptied also any hopes of discovering a better world on Planet Earth. The cartographical blind spot had been filled in with 600 miles of burning sand. An "unprecedented suspension of blood feuds" among...