Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bridge, to send out the dread SOS. "Di-di-di-da-da-da-di-di-di! The flames are under the radio room. KGYO. KGYO 20 miles south of Scotland Light . . . SOS. SOS, Di-di-di-da-da-da-di-di-di. . . . Can't hold out much longer. . . ." Blind, almost knocked out by the bitter smoke. "Sparks" Rogers and Alagna stumbled out of the wireless room. By that time the Morro Castle was an inferno from stem to stern...
...last Congress many legislators criticized the New Deal privately and a few openly, but none flung coarser vituperation at the White House than Senator Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota. His favorite accusation was that the New Deal was trying to muzzle the Press. Last week the blind Senator, egged on by Tory publishers, produced a new and startling charge: The Administration not only planned to censor the Associated Press, United Press and Hearst news services, but to start its own official press service to supplant them, after the fashion of Soviet Russia's Tass...
...Democratic gubernatorial nomination. To be sure, he was a Socialist, had run twice for Governor, once for U. S. Senator on the Socialist ticket. But he changed his party for convenience. Then he launched EPIC ("End Poverty In California"). He would pension every needy person over 60, every blind person, every widow with children at the rate of $50 a month. He would tax heavily all building land not built on, all farm land not farmed. He would exempt from taxation all homes and ranches assessed at less than $3,000 and make it up on the holders of more...
...pesos. The offer was refused. Two women singers fainted. Frijole and tortilla vendors did a thriving business selling to the crowd which gathered to watch the performers who were now weakly croaking their songs and demands but stoutly refusing all food. Young bloods from Mexico City and one blind fiddler volunteered to help the strikers, most of whom tied towels around their heads to prevent giddiness...
...noble, rich and proud lords of Scotch whiskeydom who sit on the board of Britain's Distillers Co., Ltd., smiled sedately last week at the good news their bearded, blind Board Chairman William H. Ross had for them...