Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order that pacifist letters may not disappear entirely from your mail, and blind your magazine further to the fact that some still want peace, we send you this letter...
...recognition of the need for industrial leadership in a crisis. Deepest was the realization that the Republican convention would meet in the hour of Hitler's greatest triumph and democracy's greatest defeat. Wrote Columnist Ray Clapper: "Democracy has been a failure in Europe. It has been blind, slow, inefficient, unable to understand its interests and to protect them. . . . The idea of popular sovereignty is down flat on its back. The tribal king is on the throne again. . . . Republicans have just one issue in this campaign. It is whether Mr. Roosevelt or a Republican could do a faster...
Filling in for Fibber McGee and Molly last year, blind Pianist Alec Templeton made such a hit that he was signed by Alka-Seltzer in September. Last year The Aldrich Family, after a spell on Kate Smith's show, substituted for Jack Benny, wound up with a winter spot...
Nevertheless, our thankfulness at the escape of our Army with so many men, and the thankfulness of their loved ones, who passed through an agonizing week, must not blind us to the fact that what happened in France and Belgium is a colossal military disaster. The French Army has been weakened, the Belgian Army has been lost and a large part of those fortified lines upon which so much faith was reposed has gone, and many valuable mining districts and factories have passed into the enemy's possession...
Decca turned out an album by Art Tatum, blind pianist extraordinaire, last week. This reviewer still stubbornly insists that Tatum is not such a terrific piano man, that he doesn't have taste, fluent ideas, or touch, though he does have enormous techniques. Trumpeteer Roy Eldridge thinks he's the greatest around. Listen for yourself and see whether you think it's meaningless runs or inspired genius...