Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passing of the Soldier's Bonus is to both democracy and party government the sorest blow of many years: To democracy, in that a popularly chosen group of law makers could be so blind, willfully or not, to the needs of the country at large, as to pass the bill; to party government, in that its principles, and with them its possible benefits, were thrown to the winds by the rank desertion of certain Republican congressmen...
With few exceptions these fledglings won high praise for their acting, staging and lighting, showing that the Torchbearers can often do more than clatter the teacups over the drama. A feature of the tournament was the first appearance of the Lighthouse Players of the New York Association for the Blind, sightless actresses who moved with confidence, intelligence, and only occasional awkwardness through My Lady Dreams, one of the two plays attacking birth control in the tournament...
Here are Dr. Henry Van Dyke's impressions of Dr. Fitch's novel, "None So Blind" (Macmillan). He says: "Last night I stole some hours from sleep for a quick 'first reading' and was well repaid," The book is full of life and vigor. I do not know of a better picture of 'student life' at Harvard; which, I guess, is not essentially different from the life at other Eastern-American universities. The particular quality of the book is its insight into the personal nature of the development of a boy into a man in college years...
...array of angry gods and jealous goddesses, and all the clangor of archaic war, the rumbling of chariots, the crash of spear on shield, and the dominating twang of Apollo's silver bow--was thought to be nothing more than the day dream of an idle afternoon, as the blind minstrel whiled away the sunny hours on some hillside overlooking...
...material for the book. Dr. Nansen has pictured, admittedly superficially, present-day Russia, her trade, financial, agricultural, industrial and educational situation. In each case he has striven to be fair to everyone. He has shown considerable sympathy with the Bolsheviki in their troubles, but he has not been blind to the viewpoints of outside persons.. Briefly he tells of the utter disintegration of finance, industry, commerce,, education, agriculture. He brings out, among other things, the fact that Russia was the largest wheat exporting country in the world before the War, and conjures the nations of Europe to help Russia...