Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pete Herman, former bantanweight champion, who went totally blind as a result of a blow received in an exhibition bout for charity, has regained the sight of one eye. Herman had been under treatment for a year and in bed for three months with his eyes bandaged. Said he, when the gauze rolls were removed: "Thank God, I can see! I will never fight again, but I'll be a manager...
...appeal to rats. In France and Switzerland animals were granted due process of law and one famous lawyer is know to have defended rats in court at Autun. The interest of some men takes the form a animal study. An English enthusiast reports the appearance of a plague of blind moles, a reaction, he thinks, of the war and the disappearance of the Hanoverian rat, and unwelcome attache to the House of Hanover...
...make charity a pleasure, is carried out individually by each of the suorganizations, in social work and in entertainments given for charity. The Leagues' best achievements include : In Chicago, a self-supporting theatre for children. In St. Louis, 20 small radio outfits in the homes of the blind-a large one in the workshop for the blind. In New York, visiting teachers in the public schools...
...convicts is most real, and Mrs. Booth disclosed that "her boys in Sing-Sing" had not forgotten her when she appeared on the platform with their bunch of flowers as her corsage. The unfortunate rivalry which exists between this organization of Volunteers and the Salvation Army does not blind men to the fact that they are both doing a work which the churches do all too little, and in this celebration honor has been given where honor...
Others of this "wholly unauthorized horde" who have "shaken the clubs and the messes, to go and find out and be damned", are pushing out on their planes to other discoveries. One set out in a blind leap through heavy Atlantic fogs from Newfoundland to Ireland and another flew faster than birds and the wind. Still another ascends until he loses consciousness, higher than any human being had been before...