Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Just like at Jutland, he was goin' ahead, scoutin' the enemy. 'Two Italian battleships, sir," I says. 'I can count, you bloody fool.' he says. Shortly was more Eyeties. 'Eighteen cruisers, sir.' I says. 'Dammit, man, I'm not blind,' he says. So then I decided I'd better hold my jaw, and shortly when there was more Eyeties I didn't say a word. 'How many of their destroyers off there?' he sways. 'Twenty-seven, sir,' I says. So he bloody near blew...
...losing happened in the Deep River wilderness of southwest Washington, into which the battalion marched briskly one night on Blue Army maneuvers. In those unfrequented wilds, maps proved almost worthless; compasses led them into blind alleys. Rain poured down almost constantly. Cigarets ran out. Food supplies ran low (even though eked out with berries and crawfish). One man broke his arm; practically everyone had torn uniforms, wrecked shoes, bruises, scratches...
...mild-mannered, 37-year-old Newscaster Shirer, blind in one eye from a skiing accident in Switzerland, is a radio phenomenon. Before he joined CBS. in 1937, he had an eventful, but by no means dazzling, career as correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and Universal News Service. High point of his career in foreign-news service was a period he spent in India for the Tribune, which netted a close friendship with Mohandas K. Gandhi. A product of that time was a novel about India. He didn't think about publishing it until he scored with Berlin Diary...
...suppose every married couple faces a situation like this. Most women would go to Reno and call it a day. I want to see it through. . . . If we wait perhaps John and I will be all the better and finer for it. ... There won't be the blind devotion, the dumb trust, but there will be a new understanding. . . . This is something all men go through. . . . This isn't a break. . . . I've submerged myself for John Steinbeck. I became part of him. I wrote verse. I put it aside. Nothing mattered but John. . . ." / / Composer Walter Joseph...
Ringside Maisie (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a slight opus about a prize fighter (Robert Sterling) who wants to get into a business that smells good (groceries) and a manager (George Murphy) who makes him fight until he goes blind. It would not be much of a picture without Maisie (Ann Sothern), the Brooklyn Bonfire with a heart as big as a whale. Maisie makes...