Search Details

Word: blinded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...take 7,400,000 low-income taxpayers off the rolls entirely, by raising personal exemptions from $500 to $600. It would also: 1) apply the community-property principle to all states; 2) cut all taxes on a sliding scale from 30% to 10%; 3) provide special exemptions for the blind and the aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: No Cheers, Yet | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...Hereafter, the Crimson will print no more communications of a pacifistic nature. If there are any members of the University so blind or cowardly in spirit as to clamor for neutrality when all hope of neutrality is dead, they should commune with themselves in private and find reflection in the definition of traitors as those ". . . adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." (April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editorials, Restraining or Jingoistic, Advised College During Three Crucial Wars | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

Night Song (RKO Radio) takes the cake, or most of the frosting anyhow, for fancy plot. A rich San Francisco music lover (Merle Oberon) decides that what poor, blind, bitter Composer Dana Andrews needs, if he is ever to finish his concerto, is the love of a girl whom he can't feel is pitying him. She pretends to be blind and poor; Dana falls for her, and his genius starts boiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...concerto wins a prize (put up, in secret, by Merle) and he goes East and gets his eyes fixed. Successful and happy, he begins to hit the high spots. He can't bear to return to his blind sweetheart. Merle comes East and pretends to be a rich girl who loves music and can see. He falls for her again but this time neither of them is happy, for both feel that the blind girl is being treated shabbily. At last Dana's concerto is played in Carnegie Hall (with Artur Rubinstein at the piano); he hears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...this tormented story; it is quite a tribute to the present, less talented company that they make it even bearable. Neither the stars nor Hoagy Carmichael nor Ethel Barrymore can make it better than that. However, either Mr. Andrews or his makeup man has managed an effective illusion of blind eyes. Also, it appears that those involved in this movie about music are at least musically housebroken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Previous | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | Next