Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sensitive palate and nostril. In his eyes they know no beauty whatsoever, and no pleasure but that which he takes pains to depict as of the grossest sort. Inasmuch as he cannot see life as they see it, he is as inadequate to depict their world as is a blind man to describe the glories of a rainbow...
Expert equine advices took blind staggers during the week. In America, Zev and My Own were beaten by In Memoriam, a 10-to-1 shot, at Latonia; in France, Epinard, three-year-old whom the French called the "best horse in the world," lost by a head to Verdict at Newmarket; in England, Papyrus was sold by Owner Ben Irish...
...Besides its fragmentary incompleteness, the news of each nation is influenced by the politics of that nation. Editors of every nationality feel bound to follow and support their government through thick and thin. They give their blind support to nearly every governmental policy, no matter how harmful...
...chattering teeth in snow. From the Winter sports at Quebec, the hero and the girl start in an airplane. Forced down on a frozen lake, Lionel (Lionel Barrymore has the lead) lopes away on his snowshoes for aid. The blizzard breaks. The girl (Seena Owen) goes snow-blind and wanders into a spider's nest of villains. Fights of varying ferocity follow, airplane rescues, blazing refugees...
...perhaps natural that the national exhaustion and war-weariness which have followed upon the heels of the Great War should make this country blind to the need for efficient land and sea force. But even if it is natural, it is not likewise sensible. The lesson which the war taught--that unpreparedness is infinitely costly both in lives and gold--should not be relegated to the dust of time. Soft-headed pacifists are as harmful in peace as in war. To reawaken the slumbering interest in the value and the need of an efficient navy, this day, the birthday...