Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chrysler, Cartoonist Rube Goldberg, Radioman Merlin Hall Aylesworth and an English osteopath named W. H. J. Oxenham were to make up a foursome for an afternoon of golf, the osteopath would probably win. What would make such a victory remarkable is the fact that Osteopath Oxenham is totally blind. Last week at the West Hove Club near Brighton, England he was awarded a handicap of 20, which approximates the handicaps allotted to Messrs. Chrysler, Goldberg, Aylesworth, many & many another duffer who has good eyes to keep on the ball...
...Oxenham believes himself to be the world's first blind golfer. He is mistaken A Canadian newsman nameo Harris Turner, also blinded in the War, has been golfing for eleven years. Most famed player lacking perfect vision is one-eyed Tommy Armour, another War victim, who won British and U. S. Open championships. A close match might be played between Dr Oxenham and Thomas Mc-Aulitfe, Buffalo, N. Y. newshawk who has no arms. He clinches his club between cheek and shoulder, scores in the high...
Last summer a trained nurse named Kathleen E. Hunt quit her job with the Arthur Sunshine Home & Kindergarten for Blind Babies. This is a private institution at Summit, N. J., taking in young blind boarders from New Jersey, New York, Delaware. Pennsylvania, Maryland, Tennessee and Rhode Island. When Miss Hunt left, the institution contained about 40 children, none over twelve. No If ger could she endive, she complained to the New Jersey Commission for the Blind, the cruel ways in which- Superintendent Gladys M. Kraeuter let her blind wards be punished. Miss Hunt also carried her story...
Another Sunshine Home rite was to bandage the wrists of naughty children tightly. Mrs. Kraeuter denied that she told the culprits their hands were cut off. But the feeling of amputation would be so real that one morning one of the little blind girls came running to an attendant crying: "Look. Miss Ennis, there's blood all over my shoes. They cut off Frank's hands last night...
...TIME'S own eminent consultant pronounces that Irish whiskies, being heavier, are less delicate. Question of taste.-ED. Danner Christmas Sirs: . . . Nowhere is the true spirit of Christmas more clearly shown than among the 3,000,000 lepers of the world-sick, homeless, many of them blind, and crippled as well. At 170 lonely leper outposts around this old world there are men and women and little children asking ''Will there be any Christmas this year?" Not the kind of Christmas that means extra comforts and luxuries; but just the supplying of the moat desperate wants...