Word: blinded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course of a series of 13 articles on vice in Minneapolis, The Saturday Press said that Attorney Olson was either blind to conditions or had a motive for not prosecuting...
Hushed and solemn was the Senate chamber when the final Vare vote came. In the gallery sat William Bauchop Wilson, onetime (1913-21) Secretary of Labor Democratic contestant for the Vare seat. . . . . Before the roll call was finished, Vare was hobbling out of the room. Blind Senator Schall of Minnesota groped his way to him, embraced him consolingly. In his ears rang bells for a roll call that would dismiss (66 to 15) the Wilson contest...
...their feet buried in straw on the floor of a horse car later still in electric street cars they made the trip from Marleave's Cafe in twenty five minutes and now they drop into the subway and are rushed under the river get a drink at a Boston blind pig and are back for their next class. After a couple of centuries of carrying water to the washbowls or splashing themselves at the college pump they have come by the luxury of individual bathrooms and running hot and cold water...
...Esther. He remembered, too, that a Granadan. Baltasar Ramirez, had been the greatest lute virtuoso in 16th Century Europe; that the art of lute playing had supposedly died in 1790 with the German Christian Gottlieb Scheidler. Hence he listened with a peculiar appreciation to the music of the blind man. He went home, spoke enthusiastically of its sweetness and its delicacy. Soon after four lutes were ordered for the Aguilar household and the four children, Ezequiel, Pepe, Paco and Elisa, were set to practising...
...discovered his alias was Samuel Cohen. He was sent to the work farm for four months. Anna Bellard of Adams, Mass., made out an affidavit at the cemetery office saying she had walked and talked for the first time in five years. Twelve-year-old Rita Averman of Manhattan, blind since infancy, thought she saw light and moving shapes...