Word: invaliding
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TIME is frank with itself; TIME is likewise frank with its readers. Frankness breeds discontent at times; discontent brings complaint, sometimes valid, more often invalid. TIME, in its unique way, says things at times that hit home with a bang-its criticisms are harsh -its adjectives ever are pointed as daggers- it portrays the world a bit cynically yet interestingly-it sees good in some, bad in others, worse in a few, and in so doing pacifies the thinker and makes the gullible thing. That is a mighty achievement; certainly it should overshadow the minor errors that too often arouse...
...Year to Live. You can feel fairly certain after scrutinizing this title that, in the end, she finds that the "one year to live" decision is reversed to allow her marriage and the happy ever-afterward. Before this, she was a dancer's maid; supported her invalid sister, became a dancer; warded off seduction by the wicked theatre man. It is pretty bad, even as these things go, notwithstanding the presence of Dorothy Mackaill, Antonio Moreno, Rosemary Theby, Aileen Pringle and Joseph Kilgour...
...Tokio, he visits his Aunt Teresa, a domineering invalid who in 1914 rapt Emmanuel Vanderflint, her Belgian army husband, to the Far East, chiefly because it was far. With them, ''just like one family," live other refugees, a mother, sister and two daughters Vanderphant. Also Aunt Teresa's daughter, Sylvia Ninon Therese Anastathia -long legs, dark brown hair, hazel eyes, guileless, 16, attending convent. She reads "Questions and Answers" in the Daily Mail. Georges quotes her the poets, plays Tristan and Isolde on the piano. They kiss a little and call pet names...
...Bryan, an invalid, will accompany the pilgrims, being carried from place to place on a stretcher...
...Manhattan, the Rev. Dr. Arthur B. Churchman, invalid preacher, who speaks from a wheel chair at the Bethany Memorial Reformed Church, distributed glasses of chilled water to his congregation, announced that this practice would be continued throughout the summer Sabbaths, during the hymns. Growing plants in pots will be placed at the end of each pew, that those who cannot drain their tumblers may have a place to deposit the residue. "There'll be no dry sermons here !" cried the Rev. Mr. Churchman...