Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turf. Mutuel clerks in their shirt-sleeves leaned in the windows along the brick terrace behind the clubhouse. Equipoise, the winter-book favorite owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, but no longer favored since his beatings in the Chesapeake Stakes and the Preakness, had been scratched because of a blind quarter (hidden bruise) discovered in his right fore leg that morning. Twenty Grand, coupled in the betting with Surf Board and Anchors Aweigh, was the favorite. A. C. Bostwick's Mate, the Preakness winner, was second choice and the rest of the dozen starters were at lengthening odds...
...smoking a cigaret, sat on the club house veranda talking to Jack Curley who once taught him how to ride a bicycle. Boxer Max Schmeling stood and looked at the crowd with his habitually puzzled expression. Actress Queenie Smith made excited comments to her escort Drama critic Robert Garland. Blind Thomas Pryor Gore, onetime Senator from Oklahoma said he liked Twenty Grand. John Hertz remembered the year his Reigh Count won the Derby. Jockey Earl Sande, who won last year, said he liked Mate and leaned his back against the paddock rail, waiting for the moment when he would...
...returns. The old people are dead, the house is to be sold, creditors are cutting down the trees, his ideal beloved Isabelle is living with the estate-agent, just for want of somebody better. The Pastoral Symphony tells how a Protestant country pastor takes home a destitute little blind girl to his astounded wife & family. The child is not only blind but apparently dumb, beastlike, filthy. With infinite patience, amazing success, the pastor teaches her to talk, educates her into a flower of intelligence and purity. Naturally she loves him. His affection for her he considers purely paternal, long after...
...Bethlehem last week. Fred Wolle chose the drugstore job because he thought it would leave him more time for music. He had learned the rudiments of the organ by himself in the old Moravian Church. It was mostly on his drugstore earnings that he began formal lessons with blind David Duffield Wood of Philadelphia, at 21 went to Munich where he became absorbed in the music of pious Kapellmeister Johann Sebastian Bach...
...behind all this exterior militant loyalty there is a distinguishing factor which differentiates the Harvard alumnus from the majority of other college graduates. In most cases his love for Harvard is not founded on a blind patriotism but rather on an intellectual admiration for the college that gave him his education. When this develops into a complacent consciousness of superiority it becomes intolerable. But as long as it remains the conviction that going to Harvard was not wasting time but rather the beginning of a vigorous intellectual life the attitude is correct and good. Out of this belief will grow...