Word: invalides
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...Kindergarten was increased by one-third over the record of a similar group the year before. We have had a baby since he was five weeks old cared for in our Day Nursery. He is now twenty months old and in almost perfect physical condition. His mother was an invalid before he was born and within the month died in the Tuberculosis Hospital...
...Sacred Flame. A young man, crippled, paralyzed and impotent as a result of an airplane crash during the War, worships his wife for five years from a wheelchair. He knows he is doomed to be an invalid for life; his only happiness is seeing his beautiful wife and believing that she remains faithful, to him. In the sixth year, the young man dies in the night. His nurse bluntly informs the family that he was murdered (with an overdose of a sleeping drug). There are three possible murderers: his wife, his brother, his mother...
Motives: his wife is with child by his brother; his mother has observed this. Thus-out of love or pity for the invalid-mother, brother or wife would have reason to spare the invalid the pain of disillusion. Suffice it to say here that love was the motive; and you can easily pick the murderer...
...nurse is the most important character in the play. Her idea of DUTY is a strange mixture of hate for the invalid's wife, love for the invalid, horror of sexual irregularity. Of her, the mother says: "I cannot help feeling sorry for a girl who has so much virtue and so little charm...
Shadows of Fear is a testimonial to a short, awkward, massive, bearded, sharp-nosed shadow, that of Émile Zola from whose novel, Thérèse Raquin, the story is accurately taken. How a girl connives with her lover to push her invalid husband into the Seine and how her subsequent life advances with recriminations, nightmares, protests, to a suicide in the dead man's room in the firelight is told on the screen with the beautiful realism that was the movement of Zola's mind. Splendidly acted by a Franco-German company hitherto unknown...