Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Representative Lyle Boren of Oklahoma was standing with the judges. Morose, georgette, cited, ingenuity, questionnaire, accessible, meringue, gudgeon, insoluble, parliamentary, aphorism, olfactory and lineaments cleared the stage of all but three. Then the only remaining boy, Angelo Mangieri of Hoboken and the Jersey Observer, 14 and totally blind, tripped on receptacle to win third place. Tiny Betty Grunstra, 12, of Clifton, N. J. and the Passaic Herald News, fell down on plebeian. "Best speller" was chunky, 14-year-old Waneeta Beckley of Louisville's Holy Name School and the Courier-Journal, who corrected Runner-up Grunstra and then spelled...
...BLIND MAN'S YEAR-Warwick Deeping -Knopf...
...Warwick Deeping had the formula just about right, but last week his latest novel showed that even specialists in sad-gladness cannot always hit the proper ratio, that too many sobs spoil the ink. Only a nursery word like ooky-gooky or perhaps icky-poo could justly describe Blind Man's Year...
...like justice, is blind . . . but, the lady has been known to wink...
...bare corridors of the House Office Building one day last week padded an alert young German shepherd dog named Rex, a harness with a thick handgrip buckled around his shoulders. To the grip clung Rex's master, Dr. Harry P. Claus of Arlington, Va., a consulting engineer blinded in an airplane crash three years ago. Man and guide turned into a room where a sub-committee of the Interstate Commerce Committee was considering unfavorably a bill to require railroads to permit blind men's dogs to travel with them on trains...