Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ringling's agents prevailed upon her to travel with the circus and to pose as "the ugliest woman in the world" as a means of livelihood. Mr. Ringling is kind to his people and she is well cared for. But she suffers from intolerable headaches, has become nearly blind, and permits herself to be laughed at and heckled by an unfeeling people in order to provide the wherewithal to educate her four children. Beauty is but skin deep. Being a physician, I do not like to feel that TIME can be frivolous over the tragedies of disease...
Said onetime Premier Macdonald: "It is the most iniquitous piece of class legislation produced by blind and stupid people that I have known in the whole of my lifetime...
College girls, high-school children, blind people, young Hebrew men and Negroes were among the 17 groups of contestants. They came from Boston; Harlem; Memphis, Tenn.; Derita, N. C.; Tulsa, Okla.; and many another far-flung spot...
...time of the jury examination, that she was unbiased, whereas she had told friends that she hoped to make matters unhealthy "for old man Ford." She had said that her husband was a plumbing contractor, whereas Mr. Ford's detectives found him to be the operator of a "blind pig" (saloon). According to detectives, she had held mysterious conversations involving palatable sums of money with a Jew named "Kid" Miller at the courthouse...
Christ is shown 1) curing the boy Mark of his lameness, 2) restoring the sight of a blind girl, 3) exorcising the seven devils from the body of Mary of Magdala, 4) causing Peter the Fisherman to cast a hook and pull up a fish in whose mouth is wedged a silver coin, with which Jesus renders unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, 5) quickening the corpse of Lazarus, 6) saving the Woman Taken In Adultery with the admonition, "he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone," 7) driving the money changers...