Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only weaknesses in the book are the title and the end. Mr. Young should have been drawn the blind when the hero and heroine got married. "Pilgrim's Rest", is the title, and it looks suspiciously as if the sound of the name caught the fancy of the author, and was dragged in those twenty extra pages to give an excuse for being used as a title. However "Pilgrim's Rest" it is, and it is distinctly worth while reading...
Monsignor Constantine Butchkavitch, Vicar General of the Roman Catholic Church in Russia, was murdered by order of a barbarian court. These tidings have resounded throughout the civilized world; in some cases pogroms have been carried out against the Jews, who are held fallaciously by anger-blind people to be responsible for the prelate's death for no other reason than that the arch-fiends at Moscow are said to be Jews-a contention not entirely true. In other countries where the common rudiments of law and order are preserved more by instinct than by compulsion, many millions of people...
...celluloid cup performing the function of lenses and inserted in the eye-socket so that light can reach the optic nerve of a blind man has been invented by Professor Katz, a Rus-sian opthahlmologist, according to newspaper stories from Petrograd. The withered tissue in the front part of the ball has been cut away and the semi-artificial eye inserted in eight patients, with restoration of sight. A reputable journalist ? Mr. Samuel Spewack, of The New York Worlds-sponsors the announcement and claims to have seen the operation demonstrated...
...Katz asserts that in at least half of all cases of blindness, including the congenitally blind, the light perception nerves are intact, and that his operation will make it possible for all such to see. He is also working on an instrument called an " optophone " by which light will be transformed into sound, for the benefit of the blind in whom the light nerves are dead. The professor is a director of a hospital for 300 patients, supported by the Soviet government, but is handicapped by lack of funds, equipment and personnel. His work is done in poverty and hardship...
...Harding shook hands with each of the boys and girls, patting the deaf on the back and to the blind. extending such greetings as 'Hello, there!' 'Good morning,' or 'How are you?' He was affected as the scores of blind children filed by him, and as he turned to leave tears came into his eyes...