Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poor Mr. Edwin B. Jackson! To be "struck stone blind" in Florence, Italy, is indeed a calamity (TIME, Dec. 8). Do you suppose that my information would supply a glimmerous cure? TIME may be found at the Courtyard Tea Room in Haskard Casardi's Bank on Via Tornabuoni, Florence. The copies may be previous to last week's, and very much thumbed, but they are still legible, and Mother and I read them from "kiver to kiver" during our sojourn there...
There might have been an end of the case of Davis & Michel but for the fact that Partner Thomas ("Tom") Davis was a stanch political friend of blind Thomas D. Schall, Minnesota's lone Republican Senator. (Senator-Dentist Henrik Shipstead is Farmer-Labor.) Lawyer Davis it was who argued and won Senator Schall's contest for his Senate seat in 1924. Last autumn eloquent "Tom" Davis, while supporting Farmer-Labor candidates otherwise, supported Republican Senator Schall for reelection. Mr. Schall won-and promptly, as he had publicly promised to do, recommended "Tom" Davis' partner, Ernest A. Michel...
...thread together these and kindred quaint inventions the picture tells the story of a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). He falls in love with her, encouraging her to believe he is a millionaire. His difficulties in getting funds to maintain this reputation in her unseeing eyes supply most of the complications. He finally acquires $1.000 for which he is promptly and unjustly jailed. When he emerges she has regained her sight by the aid of the thousand. As the film fades she recognizes in the ragged helpless vagrant the wealthy prince she dreamed about in darkness...
Booth Tarkington, totally blind since last August (TIME, Sept. 22), told reporters who visited him following an operation by Dr. William Holland Wilmer at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore: "The most important thing I can tell you is that I will be able to see again! At present the picture is a smudge, but I can distinguish color and form...
...what he pleases first, last, and always is as much of a distortion of true values as the most depraved dependence upon form, custom, tradition and so forth. He thinks that he is successfully resisting traps into which others before him have fallen. In reality, he is just as blind to his best interests as in the other extreme...