Word: myopia
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...morning's Press is reprinted as a reprimand to those adolescents who are prone to regard Boston journals as witless panders to the rabble. In its blissful if irritating myopia, youth can scarcely appreciate the ripe sagacity which directs the composition of news and editorials in the great world. But here the adolescent is appealed to in familiar terms. Only the purposeful blind can fail to detect in this piece that genteel sense of humor, that same mellow perspective which graced the manipulation of Captain Armstrong's publicity...
...first Freshman polo team in several years will meet the Andover four tomorrow at 2 o'clock at Danvers. The Crimson players have had several scrim mages with the Varsity and the Myopia Club. while the Blue has lost to Yale Freshmen 2.3, but won over Medford 7.2 Harvard's Poloists will be E. E. R. Gerry '36, Peter Jay '36, R. A. Gerry '36, while Andover will use Brown Fletcher, Rock, and Krubree...
...suave, his intolerance more witless, but the principle which governs them exists in the same strength and energy everywhere. Persecuting Jews in Germany and threatening Jewish lawyers in Scottsboro are governmental functions differing only in degree. To ignore this elementary fact is to criticize Mr. Hitler with a crass myopia which can scarcely command attention or respect...
Sued. Frederick Henry Prince. 73, Boston banker, board chairman of Chicago's Union Stock Yards & Transit Co.; by Arthur H. Mason. 63, trainer and seller of polo ponies and hunters; for $50,000 damages on a charge that after a 1929 polo game at the Myopia Hunt Club in which Mason rode Prince off the ball, Prince, cursing, swatted Mason behind the left ear with his mallet...
...After the death of Cleveland's Myron Timothy Herrick, Frederick Henry Prince was mentioned for Ambassador to France but New Jersey's plump, influential Senator Edge beat him to it. Other interests of Businessman Prince are his big America's Cup yacht Weetamoe and the swank Myopia Country Club which he and his friends founded, taking the name from the fact that most of them were nearsighted...