Word: blindfolds
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...Presume is a bracing exception to the general rule. Some of it is obvious, some misfires, a good deal is so good it inspires keen regret that it is not a great deal better. Taken as a whole, America, I Presume can be guaranteed neither to bore nor blindfold any U. S. reader...
...John Alden Carpenter tried to go native by using jazz tunes, but only the tunes were American. The musical grammar and syn tax still sounded like Brahms or Stravinsky. Today there is still probably no high brow U. S. music that can be identified as such in a blindfold test...
...House of Commons last week permitted that greatly trusted businessman from Birmingham, Neville Chamberlain, to blindfold Parliament, the nation (and its enemies) to the more & more frightening costs of World War II. This was accomplished when Mr. Chamberlain caused to be read in the House of Commons a quiet little Treasury minute. It explained that henceforth His Majesty's Government, when it needs more millions, will simply ask the House to appropriate "tokens" nominally of ?100 ($400)-each token to stand for whatever vast sum is secretly decided by the War Cabinet...
During the crossing of the line ceremonies Cadet Staggs was hailed before the bar of justice of His Royal Majesty Neptunus Rex and accused of winning the $100,000 Old Gold Prize, to which he pleaded guilty. He was then given the blindfold test of popular brands to see whether he knew an Old Gold when he smoked one. He failed most miserably, picking a Camel...
...streamers and take brightness measurements with photoelectric cells. Whatever the value of these observations, they could at least say they had seen a longer eclipse of the sun than any other astronomers of modern times. The better to see in the eclipse darkness, they said they would blindfold themselves for half an hour before totality started. For Dr. Stewart the ship's carpenter built a special chair, inclined far back so that he could look nearly vertically overhead in comfort...