Word: blindfolding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...episode hinging on it is strenuously exciting. An acrobat climbing up his wire ladder in a tent show to do a double somersault with his head in a sack, knows that the colleague who is to catch him would heartily like to see him dead. Somehow as he whirls, blindfold, away from his trapeze, with no net below, he has to find a way to keep the other chap from dropping him. Deft adaptation and direction by George Abbott make the little story pleasant up to this point, and the tenth-of-a-second shot of what the acrobat does...
...twinges of conscience at being obliged to use "falsehood and deception" in their glorious work? Can it be that the stern motto "The end justifies the means" only hides spirits saddened by the quality of those means? If so, it is time for some kind person to take the blindfold from the eyes of the self-made martyrs, and to instruct them, gently, that no one wants to suffer. Then, with the contentment of those who have done their work well, they can withdraw for a cozy session with the Peter Rabbit stories...
...simple soul who is merely looking for a good aero stock. Neither are the standard financial columns, vague in their statements, technical in their language, obscure in their significance, of much help to him. Thus the small investor is forced to select his stocks largely by the Blindfold Test...
...ordinary mind it seems that Philanthropy delights in scattering its pearls with much the same blindfold abandon that marks the scale-handling of the sister virtue Justice. One, and almost the only, great exception continues to be the Rockefeller Foundation, which, through its many ramifications, encourages the most varied forms of culture without rousing any lay opposition to its work as unnecessary or futile. The endowment granted to the Fogg Art Museum a few weeks ago may well become a classic example of sensible generosity; and the awards of the General Education Board for literary research of importance, while...
...blindfold test for Old Gold cigarettes will be given all tomorrow morning in the Business Department office of the CRIMSON...