Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris the deputies were not calm. Wrathful lacemakers' representatives demanded revenge duties of 200% on U. S. automobiles and parts, prohibitive duties on other articles. Up rose Georges Scapini, famed "blind deputy" who lost his sight in the War, whose affliction seems to have given him a detachment and a vision denied most of his colleagues...
These are tales of the Potato Face Blind Man, who likes to spin yarns to little girls about moonlight, spiders, rats, elephants; of Yonder the Yinder, "a long spike of a boy with a burning bean for a head, and his eyes full of spears, spads and spitches;" about the man with long arms who held up the sky when it was falling but took his time about it. (Said he: "Hurry isn't for me. Hurry is no worry of mine.") The conversation is irrelevant and entertaining, the kind of children's cross questions and crooked answers...
...closest in tune with Asians), and C. F. Andrews, an Englishman who used to be St. Gandhi's secretary. In the daily press, taboo keeps Gandhi to the fore as a sort of quaint fool with spinning wheel, who for no good Anglo-Saxon reason is followed with blind fanaticism by gibbering millions. The wheel (every one of the saint's followers and he himself must spin at least 6,000 ft. of cotton thread per month, 200 ft. per day) is indeed a strange weapon...
...that they must breathe through silver tubes, and so whistle with every breath, occupy a room in a rear-line hospital. Another, younger man joins them; some time after this trio has formed its little community, an English prisoner, in the same predicament, is sent to them. The first blind, patriotic hatred of the three slowly turns to tolerance and friendship; a new German-English whisler language is invented. Then, slowly, one of the four grows worse and dies. The others are carried along in the hope of regaining normalcy: one dies after an operation; the Englishman and the younger...
...discover what "comfort and prosperity" Prohibition had brought to Dearborn, the huge Ford factory-town outside Detroit, the New York World sent Newsman Kenneth Campbell. Investigator Campbell found speakeasies (known locally as "blind pigs") doing business almost at the factory gates. Fourteen were spotted in one block. Coffee houses and boarding houses sell liquor steadily to Ford workmen, despite the efforts of the Ford secret police to break up 'legger trade...