Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning of Dec. 22, 1935 there were two blind men in the U. S. Senate. That evening there was only one, Minnesota's bitter, blatant Thomas David Schall having died of injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile. One evening last week the Senate lost its second blind man when Oklahoma's Thomas Pryor Gore, no New Dealer, finished fourth in a primary race for the Democratic nomination to his seat...
...career distinguished by stanch independence, it was not the first time that blind Senator Gore had lost his job because of opposition to a Democratic President. In 1916-17 he fought Woodrow Wilson's drift toward war, fathered the Gore-McLemore resolution to keep U. S. citizens off belligerent ships, voted against war and, in consequence, failed of reelection in 1920. Returning to the Senate in 1931, this onetime Populist turned hard-headed conservative proceeded to oppose such New Deal innovations as NRA, such New Deal largess as AAA and the $4,800,000,000 Relief bill...
...with Lady Judith and Professor Sir Gregory Fawsitt? Who was the man in the long, soiled mackintosh, the man with the deep-set evil eyes and the complexion of a vampire? To some of these questions the reader can soon supply the answer. Ordino's club was a blind for selling drugs. Ordino was in cahoots with Lady Judith and Sir Gregory, whose yacht-cruises were not innocent pleasure trips but drug-buying expeditions to the Orient. This nefarious trade paid the three partners so well that they were thinking of retiring after a few more hauls. Then Scotland...
...books, essays, charting his progression from an accomplished satirist to a troubled moralist, from a contented mocker at contemporary society to an earnest preacher to it. Tall (over 6 ft.), extremely thin, bookish, Aldous Huxley gave up his plan to be a doctor at 17, when he nearly went blind. At 20 he published his first book, The Burning Wheel, a volume of poems. After the War he became an art, music and dramatic critic, was on the staff of London House and Garden when, in 1921, he published his first novel, Crome Yellow. The dominant note of that book...
...else suspects him, even after he has blown up two of Kravnik's prize landmarks. In spite of Lisa's pleas, he firmly intends to go on from there; but in a street brawl he gets a clout on the head that leaves him blind for life. Thwarted but still untamed, he gets Lisa to guide him to the hideaway where his explosive is stored, intending to end it all. Arrived at the spot, he bids her farewell and takes off his clothes. But when she takes hers off too, he changes his mind...