Word: blindes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this blind passion is itself one of the reasons why the original version is so moving. Does Mr. Robinson, apparently discarding it, and retelling the story in the terms of modern sensitivity succeed in making his account equally moving and convincing? This is the important question the reviewer must...
Last week the Prince of Wales visited a hospital at Brighton, England, stopped to chat with a blind veteran. "Your Highness might help a fellow," said the blind one, "by letting him in on the best bet in the Grand National tomorrow." His Highness smiled, hesitated, suggested Lord Stalbridge's entry, Thrown In, running at odds 100-1 against...
...industrialist, Henry Ford has made one of the greatest contributions ever made by any man. That is mass production. It amounts to first rate genius. But just as I am color blind, Henry Ford has blind spots in his intellect. In my opinion he is mentally unsound on certain questions of race and religion. He has a streak of bigotry on that side of his mind that is totally foreign to his industrial ability...
Frederick Delius is 64. Despite his paralysis he has gone on composing, dictating note by note to his wife. Last week he was reported to have given up even that. He was now, said despatches, totally blind...
...queer thing, the friends a blind man makes," asserted Dan. "A man who buys a paper from me every day is Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, and he's always ready with a bit of cheerful conversation. He's taken me to dinner at the Colonial Club too, and he says that when things seem to be a bit black he thinks of the tough time I've had and realizes that it's not as bad as it might...