Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charges against Mr. Daugherty will be dropped. He was so moved that he made a speech thanking everybody, broke down and wept. He, 67, blind in one eye, prepared to leave for Washington Court House, Ohio, to visit his 90-year-old mother and "make a living at law practice...
...When blind Senator Thomas D. Schall goes home to Minnesota he will feel and hear a disturbance in the political air. Malignant Minnesotans, particularly friends of Magnus ("Magnavox") Johnson, whom Mr. Schall defeated in 1924, are saying that bootleggers contributed to Mr. Schall's campaign fund. Such charges being "a dirty mess on the doorstep of the state," the State Senate last week voted, 54 to 1, to conduct an investigation. It matters not that the U. S. Senate looked into Mr. Schall's election last spring (TiME, June 28) and found it pure enough to allow...
...Blind Alleys (Thomas Meighan). The bride is carried off by gunmen. The bridegroom, loath to part, pursues. There are reels of his bursting into rooms from which she has just burst...
...honored but unpleasant feature of bullfighting, national sport of Spain, is that phase of the performance wherein a picador enters the ring, mounted on a horse of small intrinsic value, and cajoles the bull into attacking his horse after he (the picador) has dismounted. The horse, unarmed, nude, often blind, invariably suffers heavy losses in an encounter of this kind. The bull gores him until tired; a team of mules then drag his remains to cover...
...Blood tells. A language, God, property, marriage, fire, alcohol, boats, song, dancing, war and many another accessory of civilization are evolved with much probability. There are fine openings for sardonic pros and cons on the late* Mr. George's favorite subject, Woman. Evolution is consistently treated as a blind thing which "provides sport for forces which are sport for themselves...