Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bonaparte select 50 Spanish paintings for the Musée Napoleon in Paris. But when Wellington (whom he painted) restored the Bourbons and Ferdinand VII took the throne, Goya retired from the capital to a village near a church he had decorated with court characters and street walkers. Nearly blind as well as deaf, Goya produced another series of fantastic etchings, painted a Saturn devouring his children. Ferdinand, who was trying to restore the Inquisition's power, was glad when Goya asked leave...
Punishment for breaking the law was set at $100 fine or one year in prison. To the last provision was added the following unprecedented language, devised by blind Senator Gore in cynical comment on the legislative powers being given over to the Administration...
...newspaper, Il Popolo d'Italia, in the course of a routine sermon on the evils of birth-control, pointed directly to the U. S.: "If the declining birthrate continues at its present rate in the U. S., the number of biers will surpass the number of cradles. Blind and foolish arc these ignorant destroyers who believe they can efficaciously combat the Depression by sterility. There are in the U. S. 11,500,000 Negroes of extraordinary fecundity. . . . The yellow peril is nothing. We will encounter an Africanized America, in which the white race will end by being suffocated...
...back to the U. S. his doctors told him he would have to retire. Publisher Pulitzer gave up active management of the World but continued to run it through subordinates. In Manhattan his house contained a sound proof room designed by Stanford White. By 1898, he was nearly blind. Of the things that filled the World from then until he died in 1911 - War with Spain, the assassination of McKinley, the Roosevelt Administration, the election of Taft - Joseph Pulitzer saw almost nothing. Last week Joseph Pulitzer Jr., 49, was cruising around the world with his wife on the Empress...
...consult immediately with the Postmaster General and the Secretary of Commerce in order that additional training may be given to Army air pilots through co-operation with private companies who later on will fly the mails. This should include, of course, training in cross-country flying, in night flying, blind flying and instrument flying...