Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...luxe London hotels offered Christmas goose and turkey dinners, and a quartet of carol singers in Dickens costumes were hired to wander from one smart London restaurant to another, taking up charity collections for the blind. As usual, London theatres staged the "Christmas Pantomimes" they have revived over & over for generations. In that hoary favorite Aladdin And His Wonderful Lamp last week a few blitz jokes were gently inserted - such as changing the line "Clear the way, clear the way!" into "All clear, all clear!" This year, more than ever, adult Britons went with their moppets to these children...
...isolationist nor a pacifist organization--one of the signers of this letter is attending the convention as a delegate of the HSU. On the contrary the Student Union invites to its discussions all students, of whatever policy, who wish to unite in fighting the present hysterical trend towards a blind entry into the European war. The Union is trying, not to turn its back on the crisis, but to evolve a program of domestic and foreign policy which will insure that civil liberties and social legislation are preserved and extended in America; and that America's weight in foreign affairs...
...recording of the Second Symphony played by Barbirolli and the New York Philharmonic. Whatever one may think of this symphony--which has elicited for Olin Downes the tribute of "a symbol of the ancient faiths and indomitable spirit of man"--and from other critics something less than blind enthusiasm--whatever, I say, one thinks of it, one cannot deny its dramatic power and effectiveness. This dramatic power is what John Barbirolli fails to recreate. He is in general a pedestrian conductor, lacking the ability to envision a whole symphony in one flash, and so give his performances a clear stamp...
When Authoress Helen Keller made her annual shopping trip to the Manhattan Christmas sale of articles made by the blind, she received from the hands of Abraham Kreisworth, blind and deaf like herself, a hand-hammered copper tray which he had made especially for her. Miss Keller's purchases showed a partiality for blue, which "represents peace." and yellow, "symbol of sunshine...
...group rushed Photographer Mydans. He stood his ground, snapped them, got cracked on the back of the neck.* Now the crowd realized it had been tricked out of seeing the U. S. Vice President-elect. In blind fury they charged the Embassy steps. A brawl ensued. A policeman by mistake slugged U. S. Naval Attaché for Air Commander Wallace M. Dillon on the crown with a blackjack. A bemused Mexican singled out huge, tough U. S. Military Attaché Lieut. Colonel Gordon H. McCoy to sock on the chin and was flattened by the colonel for his pains. There...