Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Disregarding " social" nonsense, Mr. and Mrs. Ford built their permanent home on the banks of the Rouge in Dearborn, where they were boy and girl lovers together?in sight of the cottage where they dreamed the future together. The house is large, not pretentious; there are servants, but the footman does not laugh up his sleeve while " Mr. Ford takes the jackets off his potatoes boiled-with-the-skin-on." Over the fireplace is inscribed: " Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice...
King George and Queen Mary returned from their visit to Rome. During their stay in the Eternal City the British sovereigns were everywhere acclaimed with spontaneous joy by the populace. The sight of two of the few remaining monarchs in Europe greeting each other with brotherly affection was too much for the Latin temperament of the Romans. They gave themselves up to the brilliant splendor of a visit that will go down in Italian history as the principal event...
Although the Government made no reference to the de Valera peace proposals and has declined to recognize them, the tenor of public opinion is that peace is in sight. Sceptics, however, are asking themselves: " How long will peace be maintained...
...when guns will be melted into tractor plows is not yet in sight; but the time has arrived when poison gas is put to constructive use. The army chemists have joined the ranks of those scientists who are endeavoring; by taking thought, to add a year to man's three score and ten. They have discovered curative properties in chlorine, mustard gas and lewisite...
...feel proud that I have been called upon to fill so high an office. If I should feel proud in the wrong way, the sight of that waving before me (pointing to a huge American flag suspended from the ceiling) will keep me steady...