Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gunners Van Devanter and Phillips had just settled themselves in a blind beside Occoquan Bay when up rowed Federal Deputy Game Warden George King and a Virginia State warden, looking for game law violators. Without recognizing either of the gunners, Warden King asked to see their hunting licenses. Startled, the two men fumbled in their gunning coats. Chaplain Phillips produced his license first. It was entirely in order. Pasted on it, as required by a law enacted by Congress in 1934, was a $1 Federal hunting stamp, proceeds from the sale of which are used to buy and develop land...
...Brown's School Days, although he describes The Mint in terms that scarcely suggest Thomas Hughes's high-minded classic: "It is an old story:-the sadism of dogs in office, the surprising resiliency of human nature in these men who were being broken ... to obedience, blind, stupid obedience to fit them for service in a new realm where intelligence and self-dependence were indispensable." What Dr. Canby did not say is that The Mint, in its general mood and in its unsqueamish record of obscenity, belongs with such contemporary records as Louis-Ferdinand Celine's untranslated...
...Lucio & Simplicio Godino, Filipinos, were born on the Island of Samar in the Philippines. Due to a monstrous accident of gestation, they were firmly bound at the tail bones by a link of muscle, fibre and intestine. Simplicio's digestive tract ended in a blind pocket of gut about half an inch short of where it should have ended. He drained through the connecting link into his Brother Lucio's normal colon...
...Godino link was 24 in. in circumference, 3 in. long. Within a few hours of Lucio's death, Dr. Wertheim perforated Simplicio's anus, brought down the blind end of the gut, snipped it open and stitched it to the rim of the new opening...
Edgar Degas was practically blind the last years of his life, painted little after 1900. Honored by the world but avoiding it, he stalked about Montmartre in a long black circular cloak, on interminable walks that seemed to aid his kidney trouble. He died Sept...