Word: blindness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...times during "City Lights" the dramatic cliches that Chaplin habitually used become apparent. But Chaplin's superb pantomime seldom allows the plot to become any more, important than a background. A drunken Millionaire befriends Chaplin, and then tosses him aside when he becomes sober; a blind Flower-girl takes him for a "gentleman," and falls in love with him. That is the basis of the plot...
...tries to act with dignity, but somehow he never succeeds. When he is driving a Rolls Royce, he screeches to a stop to race a bum for a cigar butt; yet when he is down and out, he spends his last few cents to buy a flower from a blind girl. There is laughter in "City Lights," but that isn't the sole reason for Chaplin's universal appeal...
...hunt for kidnapers through Los Angeles' railroad terminal, elevated trains, stockyards and municipal tunnel. After methodically nabbing three members of the gang, the cops (William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald) undertake the ticklish job of smoking out its leader (Lyle Bettger) before he can do away with his hostage, a blind teen-age girl (Allene Roberts...
...operation is for an infection of a blind tube which enters the intestinal tract. The treatment is similar to that of appendicitis except that two operations instead of one are required and a longer period of convalescence is necessary. After the second operation the patient is usually completely recovered
...World War II. Freshman Johnson was not unprepared for the job. During the war he had run an efficient House investigating committee which worked much like the celebrated Truman Committee without drawing its headlines. Johnson believed that a congressional watchdog should be something of a seeing-eye guide for blind bureaucracy: his committee marshaled its facts in private, presented them to the appropriate Government officials, and usually received thanks for its suggestions...