Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born, with the instructions "Brush up the village, boys, Hindus is on his way!" Whether or not the man's first publications, "Humanity Uprooted," "Broken Earth," and "Red Bread," offer openings for such an apocrypha, his latest collation will give no satisfaction to those who think him a blind enthusiast. On the contrary it is only too apparent that he is leaning over backwards in pursuit of objectivity. He relates in detail the ghastly breakdown of the agricultural sector, asserts that the standard of living is lower after the Five Year Plan than before, and intimates that the political prisons...
...seen at Chicago, but entered for the Manhattan show, is an extraordinary brown stallion named Sir Gilbert. Sir Gilbert is 17, is nearly blind in one eye. Stephen E. Budd of Newtown. Conn., bought him five years ago as a farm dray taught him to jump. Currently Sir Gil bert alternates between fox-hunting and hauling a manure cart...
...George Crawford would be voided by the Supreme Court as contrary to the 14th amendment.* "The only persons who would get any good out of it would be the lawyers," he declared. "The whole thing is absolutely wrong. It goes against my Yankee common sense. . . . They say justice is blind but it is not as blind...
...deaf to no word, but we are blind to no act!" cried M. Daladier. "If Germany desires, as she says, an understanding with...
...case; in the United States our specious boom is already aggravated by the disposition of banks and credit agencies to remain stagnant, Mr. Ford has a natural prejudice against the abolition of private ownership, a prejudice which any of us would entertain in his place. But this does not blind him to the folly of "planned capitalism", and I hope that his stand will be firm enough to reclaim many of the facile converts that our cotton ploughmen have made...