Word: blinds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...elders of their Church anoint 900 crippled, blind and diseased holy rollers with oil, which seemed to benefit some...
...Spain by the adherence of Germany, made Madrid Bigwig Prieto angrily conclude that evidently the White forces in Spain enjoy the covert sympathy of London and Paris as well as the candid sympathy of Rome and Berlin. "I cannot understand why France and Great Britain can be so blind!" cried Indalecio Prieto. "How can they envision with pleasure the establishment of a Fascist regime in the west end of Europe? What will they say if General Franco wins and gives our Balearic Islands to Italy or to Germany as a reward for their...
...Lewis H. Kraskin of Washington, D. C. reminded his colleagues that in some cases apparent disturbances of eyesight may be symptoms of hysteria. He mentioned a girl of 17 who complained of blurred vision, feared she was going blind. Examination showed that her eyes were excellent. It turned out that she was nursing a deep hatred for a man who visited her mother, that "the very sight of him" annoyed her so much as to produce an hysterical simulacrum of failing eyesight...
Meanwhile Democrats gave Charles Ben ("Cowboy Ben") Ross, an astute Bible-quoting politician who is the first Governor of Idaho ever to serve three successive terms, the Senatorial nomination over blind U. S. District Attorney John A. Carver. Idaho had, Senator Borah noted to his dismay, cast 7,000 more Democratic votes than Republican...
...baseball teams, one of college players, the other of members of the Pennsylvania Athletic Club, to "demonstrate" the sport. If any two such teams bothered to play in the U. S., even the families of the players would probably not find time to watch them. Germany's blind devotion to sport was emphasized last week less by the fact that this encounter was watched by a crowd of 100,000, much bigger than any that has ever witnessed the World Series, than by the fact that almost no one in it had any idea what was going...