Word: blindest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Emaciated, bandy-legged Mahatma Gandhi is Most Holy. He lives on cold water and Indian leeks. Skinny, always nine-tenths naked, and to Occidentals often ridiculous in appearance, he yet evokes from myriads of Hindus the purest devotion, the blindest obedience Just now Gandhi is crusading afresh for a boycott of British goods. He has ulti-matumed that by 1930 India must be as free as Canada (TIME, Jan. 7) and time is getting short...
...Lillian includes bits of description worthy Homer at his blindest--to wit. "The pipe was a decrepit article, smudged duskily and he cherished it like the family jewels," and this almost transcendental athletic episode. "The second quarter saw the ball see-saw in the center of the field with both sides striving savagely but vainly to advance it. . . . At a nod from the coach, Bobbie, his face beaming, pranced on to the gridiron." Then this domestic touch to add antithesis or something which deserves a paragraph...
...throwing and coercion reveal a laudable fighting spirit, but unfortunately reveal also as little tact as the blindest radicalism: Pankhurst's window smashing, Irish guerilla warfare or I. W. W. bomb plots. In accepting the challenge the college man loses all the advantage which his education gives him, he drops his foil of polite discussion for the cudgel of insult and calumny...