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...Washington and elsewhere, smart Germans recalled to each other the gallant War record of much-wounded von Huenefeld. The monocled eye is said to be almost sightless. The heart, loyally Hohenzollern, has never recovered gaiety since...
...girl contracted a skin disease when a baby, and later abscesses which formed on her eyes, presumably through inattention, rendered her sightless...
...blind, both with foresight, have established the Clovernook Press. There, by subscription, are printed books in braille. Kindly senators pass laws; a beneficent government charges no postage on books mailed to the blind. Workers from the American Foundation for the Blind apply their efforts to the readjustment of other sightless persons, collect funds for the work, conduct surveys in order to discover what occupations are most suitable to blind persons,? arrange with clubs or with individuals to have books printed in braille...
...that moment the conference saw a strange sight. Leaning on the arm of Viscount Curzon-was Captain Ian Fraser, a blinded young war veteran. Slowly the two moved through the 3,500 assembled Conservative delegatives to the rostrum. Then, standing sightless, Captain Fraser made a two minute speech in which he put forward a stirring plea for faith in young British womanhood...
...coal miners and their heroic strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.), the policy of despairing resistance which they have adopted may be heroic but it is not war. . . . The coal miners are sightless Samsons groping to throw down the pillars of a temple the crashing of which may engulf this thing we call British civilization...