Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...figures with a hand in Krüger's fate: blunt Autocrat Otto Klenk ("Klenk is Klenk and signs himself Klenk"): Jewish Lawyer Geyer, with a frail body and a passion for logic and justice; Hessreiter, rich man by grace of a business of which he is ashamed; Dr. Bichler, blind, surly old peasant, who rules Bavaria from behind the scenes; Communist Kaspar Pröckl, bitter and untidy engineer who serves Reindl and cannot hate him successfully; Johanna Krain, friend of Krüger, who champions him, marries him in prison out of pity; Jacques Tüverlin, artist-spectator of the tragicomedy...
...indication of a lowering of this mortality rate appeared last week. The following presentations have opened and closed since Oct. 1: Luana, Symphony in Two Flats, Nina Rosa, With Privileges, The Rhapsody, Insult, The Cinderelative, A Farewell to Arms, Nine Till Six, Mr. Gilhooley, Roadside, Stepsisters of War, Marigold, Blind Mice, London Calling...
...Blind Mice. The all-female cast in this show is composed of 18 inmates of a working women's hotel. Such a situation has comparatively fresh dramatic potentialities, but the story is archaic and the fact that all dealings with the unseen men characters have to be carried on offstage strips the play of vigor. The main events are thus approached obliquely. When Miss Claiborne Foster wishes to convey the idea that her rich lover has deserted her, that her employer-the proprietor of the drugstore in which she works-has consented to marry her though she is pregnant...
...such as elementary Fine Arts has pictures and slides to form continuity in the student's mind, but Philosophy A leaves behind for many only a host of intellectual specters headed by octogenarian Socrates babbling worn out truths to a motley train of the lame, the halt, and the blind...
...Oswald. Never was leadership more bankrupt than last week at Llandudno. In blind resentment the Conference refused to re-elect to the party Executive Committee of Twelve famed James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, M.P., the jovial Laborite whom Scot MacDonald first made Lord Privy Seal charged with combatting unemployment (TIME, June 17, 1929 et seq.), and when he failed at that gave him his present post, Minister of Dominions...