Word: purblind
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...passing of the petticoat was the passing of Boldini's art. He lived to be 88. Too purblind to paint, he could still drink champagne and chuck pretty young models under the chin. In 1929, aged 86, he suddenly married. At his wedding breakfast he made a little speech: "It is not my fault if I am so old, it's something which has happened to me all at once...
...read books, magazines and newspapers only with the help of compact field glasses which they wore as spectacles. Such telescopic spectacles both magnify the print (the optical effect) and seem to bring it closer to the eyes (the psychological effect). Those advantages become troubles as soon as the purblind wearer moves around or deals with moving objects. Nothing seems to be where it actually...
...with triple cylindrical (instead of spherical) lenses in each eyepiece answered Dr. Feinbloom's problem. By trial & error he found best results by enlarging images vertically 1.3 times the natural, horizontally 1.8 times the natural. Objects seem wider than in reality. Ordinary men seem corpulent. As soon as purblind users of the Feinbloom spectacles become used to widened vision they can do ordinary work. Wearers are now operating stores, working in factories. Some are doctors...
...Prohibition, most of them lack courage to recognize the inevitable, and they take comfort in the hope that economic issues will over-shadow all others in the coming elections. Possibly the more realistic among them, hearing the applause for the wets which burst from the gallery, felt a less purblind confidence in the issue. The hedgers and straddlers of a dead decade are now once more on the fence, in a different sense. More than a graceful literary allusion lurked in the cry which was heard during the voting: "The Ides of March are come; stand up and be counted...
Such men were prime examples by which a World Conference on Work for the Blind, which met in Manhattan last week, could prove that the blind and the purblind*can succeed in man-to-man competition, if given opportunity. The limits of their ability are far wider than commonly supposed. The necessity of providing work for the blind is great. The U. S. has 100,000 blind, the world six to ten million. Vast numbers could support themselves...