Word: blindly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engineers advanced a theory to account for the accident. The amphibian planes were of a new design, having their Liberty motors inverted to afford the pilot greater forward vision and headroom. The unavoidable "blind spot" of the planes thus remained below the pilot, at close range. The Detroit, which appeared to have precipitated the tragedy, evidently lost the New York in this "blind spot" and descended upon...
...hands two boxers strutted around a ring, cuffed each other in the face, in the belly, over the heart. One was Battling Nelson, lightweight champion of the world, bloody, ferocious, who wanted to win. The other was Ad Wolgast, the Cadillac wildcat, who won-after 40 rounds when Nelson, blind and helpless, lurched against the ropes and spat blood into the ringside seats. That was 17 years ago in San Francisco...
...timbers in the roof of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, perhaps she concealed a flitting thought of the first time she had heard almost identical words?from the lips of a certain Aimee Semple McPherson, in Fresno, Calif., three years before. Uldine had entered the tabernacle with her blind grandfather, against her will. The pair had started for the girl's dancing school (she was thinking of entering the movies) but when it was found to be closed that afternoon, grandpappy?hearing choral voices across the street?suggested attending Aimee's revival meeting. They attended, Uldine impatiently...
Rembrandt painted it late in his life when he was fast growing blind. It was a portrait of his son, "Titus in an Armchair," smiling faintly out of a dull background. Last week a few U. S. art merchants and connoisseurs fought for it at auction at the American Art Galleries, Manhattan. Somebody began the bidding at $50,000. Competitors nodded their heads. Each nod sent the price up another $10,000. Near the end, nods were only worth $1,000 apiece. Sir Joseph Duveen, semi-Semitic, ornate dealer and art authority, as might well be guessed, nodded last. "Titus...
...Curtis D. Wilbur, able cook; Mrs. Frederick H. Gillett, wife of a Senator and one-time widow of a Congressman, hence, interested in politics; Mrs. Louis D. Brandeis, who writes poetry; Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg, able hostess; Mrs. Thomas D. Schall, who is eyes and inspiration for her blind husband; Baroness de Cartier, doyenne of the Diplomatic Corps and most beautifully gowned woman in Washington...