Word: blindfold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the crossing of the line ceremonies Cadet Staggs was hailed before the bar of justice of His Royal Majesty Neptunus Rex and accused of winning the $100,000 Old Gold Prize, to which he pleaded guilty. He was then given the blindfold test of popular brands to see whether he knew an Old Gold when he smoked one. He failed most miserably, picking a Camel...
...streamers and take brightness measurements with photoelectric cells. Whatever the value of these observations, they could at least say they had seen a longer eclipse of the sun than any other astronomers of modern times. The better to see in the eclipse darkness, they said they would blindfold themselves for half an hour before totality started. For Dr. Stewart the ship's carpenter built a special chair, inclined far back so that he could look nearly vertically overhead in comfort...
...never goes to bed before 3 a. m., sleeps with a black blindfold, considers it fun to open charge accounts. She writes personal letters on a typewriter, has had lunch twice with George Bernard Shaw, is of airplanes, taxis, trains, subways, refused to act with animals on the stage since a bulldog bit her in Seventeen...
Although most fraternity pledges survive their initiations with a whole skin, suffering only from jitters induced by mouthing blindfold a human eye (fried egg or oyster) or worms (cold spaghetti), the week after midyear examinations during which most U. S. campuses test their fraternity men is well named Hell Week...
...most of the time, whether it be the saturnine reflections of a girl whose 15-year-old sister is said to be as innocent as Mata Hari, or an all too realistic Times Square bedroom scene in which Terry and her roommate shout good night to each other, blindfold themselves and attempt to go to sleep amid a roaring, flashing hell of metropolitan night life. Swing Your Lady (by Kenyon Nicholson & Charles Robinson; Milton Shubert, producer). In the training quarters of a large Greek wrestler named Joe Skopapoulos (John Alexander), a horseshoe is found hidden under the Skopapoulos pillow. "What...