Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your letter column-July 4-G. H. Greene and J. W. Vander refer to TIME's orange border as "red." It is orange, isn't it- or am I color blind ? HARRIET INGERSOLL Saint Paul, Minn. The border is red. But the red ink is printed over yellow. Exposure to much dampness or sun light would fade it orange. How to say where orange ends, where red begins ? -ED. "Dilly Dow" That the umbrageous name of Cyril H. D. G. Dillington-Dowse, who pays his vitriolic tribute to the illiteracy of TIME in your issue of June...
...were watching them. "Watson had taken a step forward when the bedroom door opened, and the long, thin form of Holmes emerged, his face pale and drawn, but his step and bearing as active as ever. With a single spring he was at the window, and had drawn the blind once more...
Died. Ralph Van Vechten, 65, banker, brother of Carl Van Vechten, famed author (The Blind Bow-Boy, The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven) ; in Chicago...
...DILLINGTON-DOWSE. I am an Englishman of 25 years' residence in London and 20 in the United States, and I know well the insular type of Britisher who writes this strangely inept and grossly unjust attack upon TIME. He is evidently of the kind that nurses a blind prejudice against everything American. I encountered a number of such people during a recent two months' sojourn in London. Logical argument, ratiocination or even statement of proven fact, count for nothing with this type of self-constituted critic. Mr. Dowse's letter is full of glaring errors and stupidities...
George Edmund de Schweinitz: Foremost of American oculists; beneficent restorer to the blind of the priceless power of sight...