Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...love. East Lynne is not worth the talent that has gone into it (Clive Brook, Ann Harding, and Conrad Nagel form the triangle, and Joseph Urban designed the settings), but it is an honorable Victorian relic. Silliest sequences: the end in which Ann Harding, about to go blind, goes home for a last look at her child before walking over a cliff...
...Professor William Lyon Phelps of Yale leaves the door of his New Haven home unlocked, so that friends may come in and borrow the books he is sent for review, of which there are several hundred stacked on a table adjacent. An old red setter named Rufus (which color-blind Dr. Phelps says he sees march about as a green dog) guards the books, knows the patrons of this "lending library," barks at the approach of any unaccustomed person...
This year the coaches at Yale ascertained the sentiments of players by calling a conference of football captains, past and present. They, as representative of the members of their teams, voted for Spring practice. Either in blind ignorance or on purpose, this was taken as indicative of the true sentiment toward the question. But the captain, perhaps most of all, is most desirous to head a winning team; otherwise he would be an extraordinary and undesirable leader. Can they, naturally prejudiced, answer for all other...
Most men's decisions about their careers are leaps in the dark. The danger of leaping too soon is that a person of narrow experience is apt to remain blind to the qualities lacking in his particular existence. Routine jobs mould youth too fast. If college gives undergraduates the opportunity to travel some distance along several roads, if it keeps a man "unformed" until he can share with some intelligence the choice of his form, it is not the worst place to send this same "callow youth...
...young man partly blind meets a shopgirl on one of his walks, falls in love with her though he cannot see her face. But she is unable to stand up before his formidable Grandmamma, and their strange idyll is ephemeral...