Word: missed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Forty-one drawings by John Singer Sargent, largely studies in preliminary work for decoration, have been given to the Fogg Museum of Art, it was announced yesterday. The sketches were given in memory of Sargent by his sisters, Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormend, through Thomas...
...best Keller anecdotes concern Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), her close friend. Clemens and Humorist Finley Peter Dunne were discussing Miss Keller when Dunne exclaimed: "God, how dull it must be for her. every day the same and every night the same as the day!" Said Clemens: "You're damned wrong there; blindness is an exciting business, I tell you; if you don't believe it, get up some dark night on the wrong side of your bed and your house is on fire and try to find the door...
...Miss Keller likes Playwright Eugene Brieux and his "brood of heresies," calls Bernard Shaw the "gadfly of the absurdities of our time," met in Senator La Follette "a lonely figure climbing the mountain of privileges," condemns Henry Ford's philosophy as alluringly Utopian, too mechanistic, finds John Davison Rockefeller Jr. a man who "has made of his millions a weapon to shake ignorance out of its citadel...
Andrew Carnegie once threatened to take Miss Keller over his knees and spank her soundly for being the fervent Socialist and birth-controller she still is. He then settled an annuity on her for life and told her that all pessimists had poisoned tongues and should be sent to Siberia. "Mr. Andrew Carnegie" continues Helen Keller "was an optimist. I thought I was one dyed-in-the-wool until...
Optimism effected Helen Keller. With blind eyes she envisioned practical consequences tomorrow of what was wisest to do today. Through only a month of this practical optimism, she learned language at the age of seven. Miss Keller's career has also a social significance. The mind of no other deaf-blind has been reached so successfully, by such a variety of people. No longer are deaf-blinds classed with idiots in the statutes of any progressive State. No longer are deaf-blinds permitted to withdraw from society into their aching shells. To the Forest Hills, L. I. door of Helen...