Word: blind
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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When Authoress Helen Keller made her annual shopping trip to the Manhattan Christmas sale of articles made by the blind, she received from the hands of Abraham Kreisworth, blind and deaf like herself, a hand-hammered copper tray which he had made especially for her. Miss Keller's purchases showed a partiality for blue, which "represents peace." and yellow, "symbol of sunshine...
...group rushed Photographer Mydans. He stood his ground, snapped them, got cracked on the back of the neck.* Now the crowd realized it had been tricked out of seeing the U. S. Vice President-elect. In blind fury they charged the Embassy steps. A brawl ensued. A policeman by mistake slugged U. S. Naval Attaché for Air Commander Wallace M. Dillon on the crown with a blackjack. A bemused Mexican singled out huge, tough U. S. Military Attaché Lieut. Colonel Gordon H. McCoy to sock on the chin and was flattened by the colonel for his pains. There...
...Terre Haute, Ind., a blind newsstand manager invented a Braille cash register...
...transmitter with which to talk to one another. Favorite parking place sought by the mobile units is a cemetery, where there are no lights, telephones or overhead wires to interfere with monitoring work. Often field inspectors sleuth around for days before they root out the ethereal blind pig they are after...
...Eight signed with Arnold a consent decree effective Sept. 1, 1941 for three years. (Columbia, Universal and United Artists, who own no theatres, refused to sign.) The decree has three main provisions: 1) one-shot block booking is out; producers must sell in units of five or less; 2) blind buying will be replaced by trade showing held every few weeks in each...