Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With all testimony in, the polyglot Honolulu jury trying Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N.. his mother-in-law and two naval enlisted men for second-degree murder, was left last week with a split-second blind spot on the actual killing of Joseph Kahahawai Jr., Hawaiian buck. Nowhere in the sworn evidence was an eye-witness account of all that happened that early January morning at Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue's. Between the time Kahahawai, cowed by a revolver held by Lieut. Massie, allegedly confessed to the ravishment of Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie and a bullet...
...California Institute cannot fail to lose if it attempts to make its Houses a substitute for the fraternities. House spirit may easily develop a rivalry like that of the fraternities, which disrupt the unity of many colleges by petty bickering. Blind loyalty to a group as heterogeneous as a House cannot fail to divert attention from the cultural advantages to be derived from the House Plan...
Ralph Teetor, Lothair's cousin, has been blind since boyhood. This did not prevent him from graduating from University of Pennsylvania with honors in engineering or from designing most of the company's patented machinery. Tall, gaunt, he spent the War years working in a shipyard. The ship company tried to persuade him to stay with them but he was loyal to piston rings and returned to Hagerstown. He is sensitive about his blindness, walks alone to work each day without a cane and often goes for a stroll through the factory...
...Epoch in the company's venerable history was when Andrew Carnegie came to it and President James Hemphill, irked by Europe's supremacy in steel, offered to build him the greatest plant in the world on the instalment plan. That plant was Homestead Steel Works. James Hemphill almost went blind on it, finished the work in a dark room with bandages over his eyes, giving orders from his memory of the plans he could not see. New President Ervin has sold road materials, electrical appliances, skylights and sheet metal. His job now is to sell the sick steel industry...
...Author? For 20 years a musical and dramatic critic droop-headed Sophisticate Van Vechten wrote his first novel, Peter Whiffle, at 42. Since then The Blind Bow-Boy, The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven, Spider Boy, Parties have ripened his racy fame. Besides memories he collects autographs, postcards, pamphlets, book jackets, cats...