Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures of herself taken shortly after her mother's death. But mostly she stays behind the heavy curtains of her old red-brick house on North 12th St. Her telephone is not listed. Her letterhead does not have an address. Her sister, who lives with her, is almost blind; her Negro answers the doorbell only when it rings a certain number of times. Projecting from the third story is an old Philadelphia "busybody," an arrangement of mirrors so she can see who is at the door without opening the window. Nothing in the old house has been changed since...
...awards of this Committee in the field of literature, within the past few years have been blind and undiscriminating. This year's choices were no exception. Despite the approving babble of occupants of University chairs in poetics on its announcement, the poetry award went to a woman, a sort of minor Edna Millay, whose poems are completely negligible. They are readable and sufficiently sentimental to be a popular choice; they have a certain dexterity and gloss, often substituted for technical superiority and thought, easily overcoming the defences of mediocre critics, but they are hopelessly trivial. These triumphs in the treble...
...solidly are Designer Harry Homers amazingly clever reproductions of Manhattan's famed library-reading room, Braille room, entrance lobby, even one of the snooty stone lions that guard the portals. Roaming through the vast institution with more sinister motives than are common to real life, a blind woman (Ellen Hall), her husband (Arnold Korff) and a good many other people get into a good many messes, read very few books...
...father, he decided at last on a Church career. Natural history was merely a desultory hobby that accidentally got him an appointment as naturalist on the five-year voyage of the Beagle. And although he was no more interested in the Church than he had been in his other blind alleys, he was 40 years old before he got up nerve enough to say he was going to be a naturalist instead...
...insist that "it has to be there. It's like candles and Christmas." What went over big, besides the imposing grand entry, was straight action: cowboys with lariats climaxed by McCoy himself roping eight horses with one loop; Cossack trick riding, the U. S. Cavalry "monkey drill," a blind jumping horse...