Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wake of Emile Coué, many innovations, scientific and otherwise, have followed. There is, for instance, " Sister" Mabel Harrell, nurse of New York, who has effected miraculous " cures" in Harlem, Negro enclave of the metropolis. Cripples, paralytics, the blind and deaf, idiot children have flocked to her meetings in an ecstasy of evangelical fervor. Prayer, hymn-singing, the laying on of hands, and unquestioning faith are her only accessories. These "cures " are, of course, explainable by perfectly natural psychological processes, and are nothing new under the sun. For certain types of afflictions, and with certain religious temperaments, Sister Harrell...
...great lighthouse for the blind Goddess of Justice...
...thing to give credit where credit is due; it is quite another to imperil one's livelihood by excessive feelings of gratitude. Dempsey and Kearns, in their blind enthusiasm, have given to Tom Gibbons the key to his one vital shortcoming. He lacked that ounce of ferocity, that ecstasy of endurance that Nuxated Iron, according to the implication of Dempsey's statement, alone can give...
Thirteen years ago Henry Campbell, a blind Negro, bought a nice new fiddle for a few dollars. Henry was a lively hand with the ragtime bow. He knew a black boy who had an old fiddle. The blind man tried the old violin and liked its tone. He traded the new fiddle for the old. The other day in Baltimore this same Henry Campbell haled William Hill, colored, into court for stealing the old violin out of the trunk in its owner's room. A policeman recovered the instrument from a pawnshop where it was reposing as guarantee...
...Prof. Gustav Kolmar, Vienna physiologist, and Dr. D. D. R. Burt, of St. Andrew's University, Scotland, who has himself transplanted eyes in toads. But the majority of eye specialists and many physiologists and biologists, are dubious. A Russian doctor, Katz, recently announced the restoration of sight in blind humans by an artificial device, but not by transplantation of a living eye (TIME, April 14). And right here in Paterson, N. J., the well press-agented Lemonowicz boy had a pig's eye grafted, but without gaining the confidence of the medical profession...