Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blind Wrestler Wins...
Although beaten at both Yale and Princeton this year, blind Robert G. Allman, shifty 118-pounder, rose to new heights by planing undefeated Harvey Ross with a half-nelson and body hold. Ross, like almost every other Crimson grappler, found it impossible to gain the advantage, once down...
Feature of the bout will be the 118-pound match between Harvey Ross and Aliman of Penn, blind grappler who placed third in the Eastern Intercollegiates last year. Captain Ruggiero, holder of several impressive titles, will fight Bill Daughaday of the home squad in the 165-pound division...
Stirring up the old theme of jingoism with an editorial on outlawing barbarism from warfare, Mr. Hearst recently raised his voice for a humanitarian principle that has recurrently been embraced by idealists and in turn refuted by the bestiality and blind emotion of man. David Lloyd George's and Winston Churchill's wholehearted endorsement of Mr. Hearst's suggestion would seem to illustrate the inability of modern man to realize that humane principles can never be applied...
Author O'Connor writes in a bold, colloquial, summarizing prose, with paragraphs trailing off into dull anticlimaxes ("When he got so he couldn't stand it any longer he'd go into Phoenix and get blind-leaping drunk and spend too much dough and make a fool out of himself"). Inadequate for detailing such complex figures, as O'Rielly, this style works well in accounting for dumb, dangerous Bill Crockett, who develops from a cowboy to a highwayman, but can never understand why his companions grin knowingly or sigh wearily when he talks about...