Word: blindly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parents by agitating against their favorite, Premier Bratiano. He also mixed himself up in a scandal involving the purchase of some allegedly defective airplanes by the Roumanian Government. Every now and then he threatened suicide, although behaving admirably toward Princess Helen, who is said to be gradually going blind. A few weeks ago he failed to return to Bucharest after attending the funeral of the Queen Mother of England. This was not even mentioned in despatches because his frequent "disappearances" with Zyzis have become commonplace...
While performing, Miss Garden possibly thought of poor Franco Alfano, composer of the piece, fumbling about his quarters in Turin, Italy; knew he was in heart-sick misery, was going blind; immediately after the performance cabled him in English and in Italian: Resurrection a great success. Congratulations and Happy New Year...
...Radcliffe College have embarked upon the publication of a new monthly periodical called the "Bay Tree," the first issue of which has just been published. It is a literary magazine which contains poems and stories of a varied nature. Subjects treated in the first number are: "Love is Blind," a "Hymn to Dorothy." "I Saw the Sun," and others...
...more cultured organs of the U. S. press carried lacrimose editorials. Then correspondents cabled from Moscow that M. Stanislavsky was "working as usual" and by no means blind. The original report was traced to Morris Gest, subtle Manhattan showman, under whose banner Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre toured the U. S. amid fashionable acclaim two seasons ago. In its pristine form, the rumor had it that the great Director "was stricken while rehearsing . . . The Girl of the Golden West...
During the week additional developments concerning noted Russians often seen across the footlights included a report that Constantin Stanislavsky, Director of the Moscow Art Theatre, had been stricken blind in Moscow...