Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many days later a German shell hoists him abruptly Heavenward. Four years later, and she, in love with another man, the fact of that War night together is accidentally revealed at a house party. Not many moments pass before it is revealed that her old love still lives, blind, in a tiny English town...
There is probably no more sentimental scene in the world than the blind soldier and his old love. The authors have not entirely evaded its treacherous softnesses. Yet they have found a sound solution and filled the evening with tense moments cut by keen-edged lines. These circumstances added to exceptionally able performances by Patricia Collinge and Reginald Mason, put The Dark Angel among the finely flavored few that should be tasted...
...Aida de Acosta Root, wife of Wren Root, Manhattan Traction magnate and nephew of Lawyer Elihu Root, was going blind. Across Europe she hurried, from hospital to hospital, received little help, took ship, came to the U. S., to Washington, D. C, asked for an appointment with Dr. William Holland Wilmer, famed eye specialist. Said Dr. Wilmer's secretary: "You can have an appointment in six weeks...
...smoke, beats wife and evicts children from home," and "Smith, arrested on a charge of giving a cigarette to his twenty year old son breaks down, confesses he got the idea from movies." Little six year old Annie will stumble through the blue haze that fills the local blind tiger, and, her eyes streaming with tears, murmur pathetically "I've come to take Daddy home...
...Marchioness of Cholmondeley looks out of stone with bland, blind eyes. Behind the eyes, under the suave casque of carven hair are, beyond doubt, the thoughts of the Marchioness of Cholmondeley...