Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet, beside itself with excitement, then chanted in chorus to the Realmleader the oath of blind obedience to Adolf Hitler, now taken by every German in the State's employ and by millions of others...
...Manhattan, when blind Dominick Caputo. 25. missed his best suit of clothes, he asked his pauper roommate and best friend. Pasquale Mascia, 28, to lead him to the police station. Police got him to describe the clothes, informed him that Roommate Mascia was wearing them...
John Milton is no longer biographical news. Unlike Shakespeare's, his life has no tantalizingly mysterious blind spots. And no one, since bull-roaring Sam Johnson made his blundering attempt, has tried to debunk Milton; even the Lytton Strachey school of butterfly-breakers has let him respectfully alone. Not because Biographers Belloc and Macaulay were likely to disclose any startling Miltonic discoveries but because both are prominent professional writers, readers last week wanted to see what they had to say about their great predecessor...
Neither biographer has any light to shed on Milton's darkly unhappy domestic life. His first wife left him after a month, was forced back to him three years later; the other two he married after he was blind. His only son died young, and his understandably unfilial daughters, according to tradition, were made to read aloud to him in languages he had never troubled to teach them. And Biographer Macaulay. like Belloc. advances no cogent reason for Milton's immunity at Charles II's restoration...
...While his office ticker stutters its frantic news of crashing banks, riots, panic, and the crowds in the street mutter their comment, McGafferty faces a conference of frightened bankers, tries to bully them into a pool. While their conference is going on a group of unemployed, led by a blind man, breaks into the office. McGafferty defies them; the bankers cower. But the blind leader reads McGafferty aright, tells him his destiny is doom. When the intruders are cleared out the conference breaks up in failure; the bankers scuttle away like rats...