Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at Albany, Governor Roosevelt continued blissfully deaf, dumb & blind about his candidacy. When his friends urged him to get openly into the fight and switch to national issues, he declared publicly: "I'm too busy right here as Governor to give any thought to anything else. This job is getting bigger all the time." However he did pause long enough to assure itinerant United Pressman Raymond Clapper that business would have nothing to fear from Democratic rule at the White House...
...deserve credit for one thing, however; having the sense to take off my glasses so that I was practically blind and couldn't see a single face in the audience. Otherwise I might very easily have lost my bearings altogether...
...when Seth Parker and his troupe went touring-from Buffalo early last month, continuing in Colorado. Utah, Oregon and California last week. Everywhere, audiences seem to represent a class which could not be won by smart, theatrical revivalism. To city theatres, churches, convention halls go elderly, placid people, some blind, some lame or halt, who might not have gone out since the last Chautauqua or travelog in the church basement. They see "Seth Parker and his Jonesport Neighbors" performed with no "props" save a fireplace, chairs and the melodeon. Of plot the entertainment has little; to get the actors...
...while one cannot deny the influence of the small college in American life, one cannot also remain blind to their failing. There are many such institutions throughout the country which do not, and cannot, give the education which a college owes its students. Their curricula are too small; their equipments are not adequate; their professors are with a few exceptions mediocre. Those faults do not lie in poor management, but are due to the very nature of the colleges themselves...
...last week was Dr. Gault's Teletactor. An imperfect one was in use for several years at a school for the blind in Chicago. But three weeks ago Dr. Gault completed his new Teletactor, an entirely rebuilt instrument which has greater power, greater sensitivity...