Word: blindfolds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late John Pierpont Morgan and sister of Banker John Pierpont Morgan, 60, in an advertisement in a morning newspaper. Miss Morgan was publicly endorsing Old Gold ("Not a cough in a carload") cigarets; that is, she had put her signature to a statement alleging that she had taken the blindfold test, smoked four brands of cigarets and found that "the smoothness" of one cigaret was "so obvious." That cigaret turned out to be Old Gold...
...then, that the United States should place some balancing reservations in the scales. The demands of both sides, even, if the Kellogg plan does not go through, should be crystallized for the benefit of future negotiation. Neither the United States nor any European nation will enter such a treaty blindfold, and the bandage might as well be removed now as later...
Playing in Germany at the outbreak of the War, he was made a prisoner. He escaped and fought with the Allies, was recaptured when wounded, and kept in an Austrian hospital where he used to baffle his ward-mates by playing blindfold matches with all of them at the same time. This was mental vacuity for Alexander Alekhine; a few years later in Paris he played 28 expert in the same fashion, setting a World's record for such feats...
...curriculum. Theory of flight, aero-engines, aerial navigation and similar subjects will worry the already hard-worked students. In the future they will learn to fly-if they can pass the physical tests. These include being spun round in a revolving chair to simulate spinning in the air, walking blindfold in a straight line, breathing rarefied air corresponding to an altitude of 20,000 ft. or so. Army Air Service men see in this an outcome of the Mitchell controversy and a move to forestall a United Air Service. They stress in particular the fact that not more than...
...only pretext for a profession of friendship at that moment was apropos of the appointment of the new Japanese Ambassador to the U. S., who had not yet left Japan. But precedent had placed an imaginary blindfold over the Secretary's eyes, saying: "Hear nothing of a new Ambassador, see nothing of a new Ambassador, speak nothing of a new Ambassador until he has brought his credentials in person to the President. Till then, he is invisible, intangible, nonexistent...