Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side. His customers so respect his poker playing that they stake him for a big-town game. Ingenuous Nick gets cheated on his first excursion; the next time he gets punched in the face. The third time he wins, and afterward uses a big-town barber shop as a blind for his elaborate gambling house. Especially fond of blondes, he pats a manicurist's leg and asks her for advice, keeps a blonde canary in a cage. He warms up his luck by rubbing a blackamoor's head, a hunchback's shoulder, the lapels of his own loud clothing. When...
...Blind...
...Birds Sing bears out the popular notion that blind people are happier than the deaf. Ostensibly the heart-wring-ing autobiography of a poor girl who lost her hearing, this book reads almost like a parody of the o-pity-me school...
...blind, 60-year-old London basketmaker, who said: "Trade is bad and the money [$150,000] will be very handy...
...Carnoustie, Scotland, last week. Tommy Armour was waiting around the clubhouse with his long nose in a highball glass, wearing the sly expression which comes partly from the formation of his face, with its sloping forehead and weak chin, partly from the way his eyelid droops over his blind left eye. Out on the course, the man who seemed likely to beat him-Jose Jurado, a slight wiry professional from the Argentine-was playing his last round. Armour had finished with a score of 296, four strokes less than critics had estimated would be necessary to win the tournament. Jurado...