Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herbert Marshall achieves perhaps the most moving performance in his portrayal of a generous and sacrificing friend, Frederic March, so wooden in Anna Karenina, makes something of a comeback as a gay young officer who goes blind in the war. In fact one of the bleakest scenes in months is where he's sitting around, blind and hopeless, trying to be nice to some stupid children. He puts across his various moods of hope and black despair with a reality and depth of feeling that Mr. March's audiences are not always treated...
...woman writing for the daily press has more readers than a portly, hearty, white-haired old lady who lives in a little house high above San Francisco's Golden Gate. Nearly blind, ailing from diabetes and shingles, she celebrated her 72nd birthday last week in bed. San Francisco's Board of Supervisors stopped work long enough to pass a resolution wishing her "many happy returns." The Chief of Police sent flowers. So did Mayor Angelo Rossi, who is by trade a florist. But what warmed the old heart of Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils most was a pair...
...uneasy at Bergoff's system of industrial anarchy, jumped at the chance to strike him a stiff blow. Only license which Bergoff possesses is for private detective work. During hearings on his employes' complaints last spring the State charged that Bergoff Detective Service, Inc. was simply a blind for unlicensed Bergoff Service Bureau, its sole purpose being to give the impression that Bergoff's strikebreaking activities were carried on with the State's sanction. On those grounds last week Bergoff's detective license was revoked...
Married. Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, 38, Manhattan socialite broker; and Nina Gore Yidal. daughter of Oklahoma's blind Senator Thomas Pryor Gore, divorced wife of Director Eugene Luther Vidal of the Bureau of Air Commerce; in Washington...
Even so, the watchdog's Pontiac creeps in the shadows on the Wigglesworth side of the avenue. Blind to all else, his eye follows the quintet's every move...