Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most unfortunate setbacks had been suffered by outstanding journalists assigned to the North Front. Swizzling in Cairo recently and proclaiming, "I'm having a nervous breakdown!" famed Floyd Gibbons was all but unrecognizable when last photographed (see cut) except for his trademark, the patch across one blind eye. Others were arriving in Manhattan, London and Paris heart-shocked by the altitude; nausea-shocked by the fleas, flies and filth; sleepless from malaria and dysentery; jittering and at such low ebb that their journalistic employers sent them to secluded rest homes. On the subject of altitude able United Press European...
...tried to get a radio bearing, discovered his antennae had torn away in the takeoff. Nonetheless, he dashed on at 225 m.p.h., taking oxygen every five minutes. After an hour, as he whizzed over the Colorado River into Arizona, thick weather shut in around him, forced him to fly blind. Climbing another 3,000 ft., he found smoother air, came out into the clear over Santa Fe as his third hour ended. Hour later, he met night rolling in over Kansas...
...with unskilled directing and acting. While Gary Cooper reverts to the cowboy in a few scenes, he turns in a quite creditable performance as Peter, and Ann Harding is even better as the Duchess of Towers. It was a pleasant surprise to find Donald Meek taking the part of blind Mr. Slade so well. Gogo was played by Dickie Moore while the role of Mimsey was taken by Virginia Weidler. Both of the children did well although they were made to cry too much. Their part of the story, unfortunately was telescoped to such an extent that the importance...
...absurdity is obvious enough to make a few blind followers of dear Dr. T. see the impossibility of his idle dream...
...also sang in Balaban & Katz theatres, a soloist with the Minneapolis Symphony, a minor member of the Chicago Civic Opera Company. After a summer in Europe and three seasons with the Ravinia Opera Company in the U. S., she joined the Metropolitan in 1929, made her debut as the blind mother in La Gioconda...