Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clear that a number of governments will be unable to meet further payments to us in full pending recovery in their economic life. It is useless to blind ourselves to an obvious fact. Therefore it will be necessary in some cases to make still further temporary adjustments. . . . In order that we should be in a position to deal with the situation, I recommend the re-creation of the World War Foreign Debt Commission, with authority to examine such problems as may arise in connection with these debts...
...music of any deep emotional content. Choruses had momentum but little real vitality. The love music was pallid and unaffecting compared with L'Amore, where Fiora forgets even the stalking blind king who she knows is coming to kill her. In a box last week sat Mary Garden, greatest of Fioras, with Signora Montemezzi, whose husband would appear more & more to be a one-opera composer...
...given the benefit of the doubt, some ulterior motive must be found. Perhaps it is a subtle method of advertising the Golden State. "California" and "fish" are to become synomous. Again it may be hoped that men trained in this course will sometime prove that even the color-blind fish is not oblivious to the magnificent coloring of the California scenery...
Then she met Zachery Westcott, young naval officer. They made a mutual impression, but Leda was as rude to him as possible, tried to keep from seeing him. When daughter Marise met Westcott she fell in love with him very quickly; Leda, blind where her daughter was concerned, never noticed it. Westcott fell half in love with Marise, but Leda fascinated him. Marise's aunt saw what was coming and tried to warn Marise; before she could, Leda announced her engagement. Instead of fainting, Marise went into the bathroom and was sick. After Leda's honeymoon Leda died...
...Pulitzer turned over evidence on Panama which the New York World assembled for its defense when President Roosevelt ordered U. S. Attorney for New York Henry Lewis Stimson (now Secretary of State) to prosecute for criminal libel. From Dr. William H. Wilmer Biographer Pringle learned that the President went blind in his left eye in 1908 and "not more than a half dozen people knew it." Mrs. Robert Bacon helped fill in the blank spots on the first Roosevelt marriage. Here and there are footnoted a few "confidential sources" but none of large historical importance...