Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arapahoes, to "make the run" when the Great White Father threw open Indian Territory to his white children. A few months later Elmer Thomas hung his shingle over the doorway of a frame house in the frontier town of Lawton. Across the street hung the shingle of a young, blind lawyer who had not yet developed his resonant chime-like voice-Thomas Pryor Gore. Frequent court opponents, they were friends, and both had their shoes shined by a newsboy named Riley. In that frontier world all things were possible, for today Thomas and Gore* represent the sovereign State of Oklahoma...
...natural groove for dimple-chinned Dr. Struve, 36. His great-grandfather, grandfather and father were astronomers. Like War Student Nikolai Golovine, he is Russian-born and a one-time Imperial soldier. After the Revolution he fought with the White Armies, fled to Constantinople in 1921, a year ago succeeded blind Professor Edwin B. Frost as boss of Yerkes...
...fraternal order's parade, is discovered and arrested again. By the time his case has been finally ironed out, he is almost proud of the disturbance he has innocently created. A cynical friend suggests that the whole affair has been adroitly fomented by the French Government as a blind for some sharp bargaining in foreign oil concessions...
Lincoln Steffens, in an interview with the devil, performs an amusing tour de force by identifying satan with that above all things which Mr. Steffens hates--the instinct of conservatism, the blind lust to save things which we do not understand or evaluate. More pretentious, and less satisfying, is a homily on the institution of marriage by Andre Maurois. M. Maurois fights hard to preserve his urbanity, but through it all glitters that most distressing of phenomena, the putter-to-rights, who is just as alien an element in magazines as he is in the drama, where he contents himself...
...same note of blind optimism, almost pathologic in its character, pervades the entire Washington scene. President Roosevelt in his admirably phrased message to Congress refers to "those for whom recovery means a reform of many old methods, a permanent readjustment of many of our ways of thinking, and therefore of many of our social and economic arrangements." But the President makes no specific reference as to what general plan this "readjustment of our ways of thinking" are to take...