Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well-disciplined and thoroughly cowed, Vag turned into the eave at 15 Holyoke Street, holding the paper in his left hand, leaving the right free for saluting. Painstakingly, he followed signs to a nice lady and for her read the color-blind numbers, but declined when she asked him to do it again. Upstairs there was some difficulty in the laboratory; Vag bridled a little at the fourth sign in a row saying "Have you forgotten to put your came on the bottle-cap?" and he was annoyed when he reached the doctor's office. The questions started--exactly...
...Abbot, Father Ambrose will be deeply concerned with the education of youth, always a chief objective of the Benedictines. But he is no blind supporter of traditional or classical training. His own background and experience are against that, and he believes that all Catholic education-for laity and clergy alike-should place more emphasis on social problems. Says he: "The big trouble in parochial schools is that the nuns never get out in the world, are unacquainted with social problems...
Died. Eva Tanguay, 68, onetime bespangled, tousle-haired queen of vaudeville, whose raucous rendition of I Don't Care was top favorite with a whole generation of U.S. showgoers; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood. Nearly blind, crippled with arthritis, the remains of her fortune ($2,000,000) lost in the crash of 1929, she lived out her last years alone, hoped always for a comeback: "Say that I will be back ... if you will-back by Christmas...
...American Military government in its program of denazification, "Temper the Wind" seeks to uncover the selfish and villaninous forces at work in Germany. These groups play on the political ignorance and homesickness of the American troops to the obvious detriment of the peace. World-wide cartels operated by blind Americans and undercover Nazis destroy the work of the AMG and are only defeated by their ruthlessness that incites a murderous riot. Anti-nazi Germans are killed before they can re-educate their people, stiff-necked Nazis, recently shorn of their Charlie Chaplin mustaches, slither around the stage, eager to rehoist...
...hospitalization plan is the CCF's second major step toward socialized medicine. On Jan. 1, 1945, it instituted free hospital and medical care for some 25,000 old-age pensioners, the blind, orphans, those receiving mothers' allowance and all their dependents. Now Saskatchewan hopes to work out a Government plan to pay medical bills...