Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second-rate picture with first-rate trimmings, the fundamental absurdity of Dangerous is partially disguised in the suave dialog written for it by Laird Doyle and by the presence of Bette Davis, currently Hollywood's No. 1 impersonator of femmes fatales, whose wicked eye-poppings outdo those with which she made her reputation in Of Human Bondage. Typical shot: Franchot Tone muttering, "It can't go on like this...
...Springfield, Mo., Memphis, Indianapolis. Getting used to his routine of eyewash and antiseptics, Dr. Brown said: "No special attention is necessary for Dr. Kagawa. I see that he has everything he needs and I am with him because of the Federal request." Dr. Kagawa, who is blind in one eye and needs a strong magnifying glass to see out of the other, said he felt fine...
...Quarantine Station on Angel Island two Public Health Service doctors confirmed what immigration officials had suspected and what Dr. Kagawa's friends have known for years: he suffers from trachoma. He contracted this highly infectious eye disease during the 14 years he voluntarily spent in the filthiest slums of Kobe, laying a solid foundation for his views as a Christian radical. After 13 operations, Dr. Kagawa has lost the sight of one eye, must use a powerful magnifying glass to read with the other...
...Helen Hayes, looking not unlike Maude Adams, was touring in Pollyanna when the chance came to work for the playwright who had made Miss Adams famed. The piece was Sir James Barrie's Dear Brutus. The leading man was William Gillette.* And there was not a dry eye in the house when Helen Hayes got through wringing the last teardrop out of the scene in the wood where Gillette, the childless artist, meets the daughter he might have...
Like many a diseuse, Sarah Osnath-Halevy gained telling effects with a .shrug of a shoulder, a lift of an eye. More marvelous, though, was what she could suggest with her long, slim hands alone. Each finger seemed to have a definite part, each pose its own particular beauty. That such hands should have washed dishes and scrubbed floors seemed almost incredible. But it is a fact that Sarah Osnath-Halevy was a domestic servant before she made her mark as an interpreter of songs. Her family, driven out by Arabs, left Yemen when she was 4. On the long...