Word: blindes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost blind, Miss Mary Cassatt is exhibiting and selling work covering 50 years, in Paris. She plans to retire to a suburb of Paris, or else return to her native America and live in Manhattan...
...Blind flight still remains a source of great peril to aviators. Brooks Hyde Pearson, air mail pilot, up in a blinding snowstorm, crashed into trees high up in the Alleghany Mountains. A farmer of Curwensville, Pa., saw the plane in distress, heard the crash and at daylight found the burnt remains of plane and pilot after several hours' search. Pearson had in his plane the usual flying instruments, totally insufficient in snow, fog or violent rain. Fortunately, the Army Air Service is aware of this serious problem in air navigation. Last week Eugene H. Barksdale (lieutenant) and Bradley Jones...
...Strong. This turgid but powerfully analytical play adapted from the Danish of Karen Bramson stresses the point that Virtue, besides being its own reward, is its own weakness. An old, hunchbacked, club-footed professor, who in addition to going blind has about every other deformity of mind and body, saves a lovely girl from a brutal father, and then clutches at the girl. He forces her to marry him, through weakness and pity, and when she tries to elope with the sculptor she loves, the professor chains her to himself with the intangible but unbreakable bonds of gratitude. The strength...
...Nowadays an army or a navy without an air-force is like a boxer entering a fight blind-folded;" whereupon to prove his point, General Patrick proceeded to show some terrifying pictures of the bombing of the battleship Alabama. Exactly six minutes elapsed between the moment when the 2000 lb, bomb struck the deck of the doomed ship to the time when its keel disappeared beneath the sea. And to show how much the art of air-offence has improved, nowadays three air-planes can drop in one fight as many tons of bombs as were dropped on London during...
Although the Left Centre and some of the Bloc National, which is near the Extreme Right in politics, remain faithful to Premier Poincaré, it is quite certain that his friends and his foes are not blind to his physical ailments. The Premier's apparently strong position in the Chamber is due to a large number of Deputies, particularly those of the Radical Bloc, who refuse to cast their votes either for or against Poincaré's measures. In most cases this abstention is a protest against Poincaré's foreign policy or against his abuse...