Word: blindly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cordon of police and several plain-clothes men escorted John Coolidge through Chicago, Brule-bound. He reached his family in time to go with them to blind John Taylor's tiny Congregational Church. Just before his sermon Mr. Taylor said: "I take this opportunity of wishing President Coolidge a very happy birthday and many, many happy returns." As everyone knew, Calvin Coolidge would be 56 on the Fourth of July...
Gore. The laborious effort of Senator James A. Reed to get nominated at the convention took a surprising turn when onetime (1907-21) Senator Thomas Pryor Gore of Oklahoma stood up to second. Mr. Gore is blind but Mr. Gore is cheerful. Excerpts from the Gore speech: "Four years ago the Republican Party went to New England to pick a candidate. This year they have to go to old England." "Republicans already have begun to sing 'My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean.'" "Mr. Hoover went too far and stayed too long." "Let us all make up, no matter...
Died. Donn Byrne (Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne), 39, mystic Irish author (Messer Marco Polo, Blind Raftery, Hangman's House, etc.), self-styled "last of the traditional Irish story tellers"; in an automobile accident, at Bandon, County Cork...
Died. Basil King (pen name of William Benjamin King), 69, onetime Canadian minister of the Episcopal Church, later famed as blind author of opti-mystical novels (The Inner Shrine, The Conquest of Fear, Street Called Straight); after a four-year illness; in Cambridge, Mass...
Married. William Eugene Johnson, 66, famed blind-in-one-eye anti-saloon rallier; to Mary Bessie Stanley, widow of a deputy-rallier; in Syracuse. Mr. Johnson's first wife was Lillie M. Trevitt, who was William Jennings Bryan's stenographer...