Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years' living, six months in jail, and undying fame as an artist. Beginning in the second decade after the Napoleonic Wars, hardworking lithographers including Traviès, Gavarni and Grandville filled these sheets with caricatures of Bonapartist reactionaries and canting bourgeois. Daumier, who worked hardest & longest, died blind and penniless in 1879 in a house given to him by Corot. No cartoonist of Daumier's power, few painters so well endowed or so frustrated, have lived since. Because he was a great humanitarian as well as a great draughtsman, his work, like that of Goya...
...meeting of Noelites, thought he was speaking their theological language, was aghast to find that they disagreed violently with everything he said, particularly when he mentioned "Christian myths." Publication of Father Noel's Life of Jesus*, over which he labored for 30 years and which has left him blind, should clear up the matter of his views. But the lengthy volume may disappoint some religious radicals. Its interpretation of Jesus' life is unexpectedly mild, unexpectedly orthodox on miracles and other matters which do not impinge on social revolution. Of Feeding the Five Thousand, Father Noel says...
Sponsored by a committee of nine men, Colonel Morris Frank, lecturer of the "Seeing Eye" school in Morristown, New Jersey, will give an illustrated talk on the work of training dogs to guide the blind. The lecture, open to all interested, will take place Monday in the Kirkland House Common Room and will start at 7:15 o'clock...
Author Booth Tarkington, an art lover although partially blind for several years, purchased three "old masters" to add to his collection in Kennebunkport, Me.; Sibylla Of Tibur Before Emperor Augustus, by Jan de Beer; Portrait of an Author, by Jacopo Pontormo; Menaud d'Aure, Viscount d' Aster, by an anonymous 16th Century Frenchman. Simultaneously, he finished a novel on connoisseurs and art dealers...
When bad plays reach Broadway it is usually through the blind openhandedness of some gullible angel, but this one had the Hollywood backing of the astute Warner Brothers, was one more indication of Hollywood's renewed interest in the Broadway stage as a source, albeit an inconsistent one, of script material...