Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...verse, Miss Sinclair appears to have created a new literary form. It is a dramatic narrative poem recounting Elizabeth's love for the poet Victor−a love which lasts, even when Victor deserts her for a younger woman, and glows triumphant when he returns to her, disillusioned, blind. At times the unusual form of its telling seems to create a strained, disjointed effect, with false emphasis. But for the most part, the lines flow with vivid, restrained and often impassioned beauty...
...blind delegate from Iowa seconded Governor Smith...
Justice is blind; justice is stern-perhaps it is thus in other lands. In the U. S., however, the Chief Justice has laughter in his eye and kindness in his heart. His decisions are the law of the land, but his proportions are its admiration. He is a very substantial answer to the aphorism that nobody loves...
...underlying the Sahara Desert, for artesian wells sunk at many points in the great waste, both by the French authorities and by natives, have invariably proved productive. Now, marine life has been found in water drawn from some of these wells-small crabs, fish and shellfish. They are not blind or otherwise abnormally evolved to meet subterranean conditions, as are some of the animals found in Mammoth Cave. But they belong to normal surface species known to inhabit the lakes of Palestine. The excavators are puzzled, but advance the theory that the whole of North Africa is underlain...
...blue bow tie there, Doc - suah is blue an' suah is bow." "That's fine. Now take a look around." Joe (that is, Sam) did, and there was no mistaking that he had recovered the sight of one eye- the other is permanently blind. A few days later Sam left the hos pital "on his own steam," as he put it. He was happy. He smiled. "It's wonderful," said he, "to be able to take a man out of the darkness. There must be some satisfaction for the Doc in that. He's a marvelous...