Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Above all, Haile Selassie has created a general, warm and blind sympathy for uncivilized Ethiopia throughout civilized Christendom. In the wake of the world's grandiose Depression, with millions of white men uncertain as to the benefits of civilization, 1935 produced a peculiar Spirit of the Year in which it was felt to be a crying shame that the Machine Age seemed about to intrude upon Africa's last free, unscathed and simple people. They were ipso facto Noble Savages, and the noblest Ethiopian of them all naturally emerged as Man of the Year...
...Okla., Oklahoma City, Springfield, Mo., Memphis, Indianapolis. Getting used to his routine of eyewash and antiseptics, Dr. Brown said: "No special attention is necessary for Dr. Kagawa. I see that he has everything he needs and I am with him because of the Federal request." Dr. Kagawa, who is blind in one eye and needs a strong magnifying glass to see out of the other, said he felt fine...
...Senators who sat in the last session of Congress the one least liked by his colleagues was undoubtedly the late Huey Long. Had a secret vote for that distinction been taken, a runner-up to the Louisiana "Kingfish" would probably have been blind Senator Thomas David Schall of Minnesota. He was so unmeasured in his attacks on President Roosevelt, his wife and family, that even the sternest opponents of the New Deal shivered. But just as Senators were shocked by the assassination of Democrat Huey Long, so last week they were shocked by the tragedy that befell Republican Tom Schall...
...pompous delegation was that she had been bluffing after all, that she still hoped to negotiate a treaty, if not on the basis of parity at least better than 5-5-3. If so, few doubted that she was mistaken in her guile. The U. S. delegates were not blind to the fact that the U. S., capable of building about seven battleships to Japan's one on the basis of national wealth, will gain relatively little economically and lose relatively much in naval power by yielding further to Japan, whereas Japan may lose much both economically...
...totally blind, and everyone who has walked up Massachusetts Avenue from Dunster Street, has probably seen him at has post at one time or another. Although he admitted to a CRIMSON reporter that last Sunday was a "pretty mean day to be out," weather doesn't keep him from working his seven hours...