Word: blindly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year and a half she was a healthy and good natured little absurdity; then, in her second winter, some jealous deity reached out his hand toward Helen Keller. She had an illness, "acute congestion of the stomach and brain"; afterward she was as deaf and as blind as an idol. For five years, "a peevish, unmanageable little animal," she squirmed in the horror of an endless gloom. Then the wise fingers of Anne Sullivan Macy, tracing with infinite patience signs and symbols upon her hand, brought Helen Keller along a lane to light. Years later she could read and write...
...this Helen Keller, living now in Forest Hills, L. I, last week were sent three thick volumes from the New York Public Library. We, famed Colonel Lindbergh's account of his most famed escapade, had been translated into braille type for blind readers; these were the first impressions of the translation. Helen Keller read them slowly because, carrying her police dog puppy downstairs a few days before, she had fallen and hurt her arms. A dog sat beside her as she read, looking with bright uncomprehending eyes at the book she held. Last May, when the world...
Braille is familiar, but too few people know its history, understand how blind people use it. In 1771, Valentine Haiiy, a Frenchman, saw a troupe of blind beggars performing tricks in the street. Touched by the spectacle, he determined to find some way to aid blind people, some way in which, if they could never see, they might at least learn to read. His method, a system of printing books with embossed letters, was developed and improved by Louis Braille. The code which bears his name is an alphabet in which the letters are represented by raised dots, differing...
...gigantic concept of enabling those who cannot see, to imagine the meanings of the words they read, was the beginning of an extraordinary change in the condition of people who had heretofore been only a little less tragically useless than lepers. Now competent organizations function to aid the blind. In Mount Healthy, the Trader sisters, one blind, both with foresight, have established the Clovernook Press. There, by subscription, are printed books in braille. Kindly senators pass laws; a beneficent government charges no postage on books mailed to the blind. Workers from the American Foundation for the Blind apply their efforts...
...would take a blind man, a hypocrite, or a total abstainer from Boston parties to deny that there is not at least a germ of truth in the picture which Miss Lowella Cabot paints in the Advocate of the Harvard man off on a tear in Boston. Overdrawn the picture is, of course, but no more off the plumb line than is necessary for good satire...