Word: sightlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ring with which Roddy Dunton had affianced Violet Deering. Chapelle has suc ceeded Dunton in her heedlessly wavering affections. They quarrel. In the attack the following day, Dunton gives Chapelle false orders. He returns blinded. Overcome with the vicious cowardice at his act, Dunton shoots himself. Chapelle, sightless, returns to London, to find that the girl has engaged herself to a luxuriously wealthy peer...
...preparing a literary work, entitled The Second Lover of Lucretia Buti. This work is to be done in two volumes, and will be dedicated to the late Eleanora Duse. The same report stated that publishers have just received three volumes from the Poet entitled: The Luckless Volunteer, The Sightless Companion, The Courageous Poor Serving Maid...
...exceptions these fledglings won high praise for their acting, staging and lighting, showing that the Torchbearers can often do more than clatter the teacups over the drama. A feature of the tournament was the first appearance of the Lighthouse Players of the New York Association for the Blind, sightless actresses who moved with confidence, intelligence, and only occasional awkwardness through My Lady Dreams, one of the two plays attacking birth control in the tournament...
Last week this Viennese biologist arrived in America, fresh from triumphs at Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities, where he lectured on his work with fire salamanders and sightless newts, and convinced many of the leading British biologists of the validity of his findings. He was confined to his hotel room with a severe attack of grippe but was informally welcomed by Dr. Harry Benjamin (American disciple of Steinach) who knew him in Vienna, and a committee of eminent scientists, including Dr. David Starr Jordan, President Emeritus of Leland Stanford, Jr., University; Dr. Paul Bartsch, of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington...
Belle France. War left him sightless but unbowed. His fellow artists rallied to his support. The last picture he painted was in this year's Salon de la SociÉtÉ Nationale. Recently he was promoted from Officer to Commandeur of the Legion d'Honneur. Great painters struggled to carry him on their shoulders through the Grand Palais. G. C. Bonnat, Director of the École des Beaux Arts, made him Professor of Esthetics for life. Lemordant struggles...