Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gordon's present drama takes place for the most part in the frozen North, but there is still plenty of "mammy-palaver." It concerns a murderess who flees with her elderly and devoted lawyer to the north woods when conviction seems certain. The old man goes snow blind. A strapping woodsman entertains the girl and the whole thing ends in death & destruction. The girl is Nancy Carroll, round-faced, red-headed little film actress. Miss Carroll has had far more credible roles written for her back in Hollywood...
They have called forth the genii and cannot bottle him again. In their blind efforts to have and to hold power, the dictators and the premiers of Europe and all whose interests they represent, have found a weapon ready-forged for their purposes, and one which they have wielded well. That weapon is the spirit of nationalism. With conviction born of psychological necessity these men have hallowed that sentiment with the bathos of a thousand speeches, a thousand parades. Pushed on by the pressure of those who would upset them, they have identified the welfare of the country with...
...traditional milkshake. Emerging, he will puff out his lips, tap his black cane contentedly on the sidewalk, and roll on his way. Pausing a moment, he will reach into his pocket, pick out the cigar he had not smoked during some faculty meeting and give it to the blind news dealer. Again the puff, the cane, and the bow legs swing into action, as their owner heads for home. Even the taxi men may smile. They know him. He is "the stout feller with the black stick who lives in the red house on Sparks...
...this means inquisitive Dr. Shastid has observed, although all the observations are not unique with him, that fish are all short-sighted "because even in the best-lighted water no eyes can see very far," that all fish eyes are flat in front, that "fish are about all color blind" and can distinguish the colors of gay bait "only as various shades of grey, precisely as a color-blind person would." that fish can scarcely see anything below the level of their heads, that the pupils of fish eyes are almost always round, but never oval, that fish pupils contract...
...from the city, maintain a lunch fund which amounts to some $1,500,000 annually. When Jewish holidays fall on school days, the schools lose $500,000 annually, New York State aid being apportioned on the basis of daily instruction and attendance. New York City provides classes for the blind, deaf, crippled, tuberculous, cardiac, mentally slow. There are classes in Americanization, in vocations, by day and by night. East Side moppets who have never before seen a cornstalk may help till an East Side school-garden. From 1920 to 1930 New York opened new schools at the average rate...