Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have I got on, Joe?" "You've got a blue bow tie there, Doc - suah is blue an' suah is bow." "That's fine. Now take a look around." Joe (that is, Sam) did, and there was no mistaking that he had recovered the sight of one eye- the other is permanently blind. A few days later Sam left the hos pital "on his own steam," as he put it. He was happy. He smiled. "It's wonderful," said he, "to be able to take a man out of the darkness. There must be some satisfaction...
...leases adjourned, subject to call, because the supply of witnesses had been exhausted. The quarrel between Senator Walsh, Democratic prosecutor, and Senator Spencer, Republican defender, continued to the very end. Daugherty. The investigation of the Daugherty regime in the Department of Justice continued, but with its end in sight during May. There was the usual round of witnesses, most interesting of whom was Thomas W. Miller, Alien Property Custodian, who, speaking of some of Daugherty's associates, said: "I told President Harding that I did not like some of the ways of some people who came from his State...
...liberty that he takes with orthodox forms in substituting pauses for syllables and in docking the first feet of pentameters. To those persons, now painfully numerous who read poetry aloud without indicating the metre, such variations are of no moment; to most-others they are at first sight difficult and demand for adequate reading a little preliminary study...
...Monarchists outside the town marched past Prince Oskar and General "Ludy." They wore high hats, frock coats, white ties, elegant boots. The sight of this motley crew goose-stepping in grand style made even German generals laugh...
Catskill Dutch. Revival meetings are being more and more avidly seized upon by playwrights to furnish good stamping grounds for plays. They have so much natural drama in them, with everybody in sight fighting the Devil at the top of his voice, that any act which contains them virtually writes itself...