Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreign notables in straightened circumstances have made such expeditions before, and Americans have sometimes resented the sight of a stranger picking up nuggets of gold in our fields. But the bald from Oberammorgau is not coming entirely to take. It will refresh the jaded appetite of the land of mechanical efficiency with an exhibition of its own handiworks in wood and clay. And in order that these may not seem out of place in our marble halls, it will display its wares in a miniature setting of Oberammergau. A model of German village life, its daily tasks, and its festivals...
...optic nerve of a blind man has been invented by Professor Katz, a Rus-sian opthahlmologist, according to newspaper stories from Petrograd. The withered tissue in the front part of the ball has been cut away and the semi-artificial eye inserted in eight patients, with restoration of sight. A reputable journalist ? Mr. Samuel Spewack, of The New York Worlds-sponsors the announcement and claims to have seen the operation demonstrated...
...Broadway 20 times a season for the last ten years under various aliases was not once pretty good stuff; the trouble is that it will not cease its "damned iteration." Consequently those reviewers who must witness over a hundred plays a season and are fed up with the sight of shopworn chorus numbers are compell? to depend for amusement on the personality of the comedian...
...quick fire shooting will be at 25 and 50 yards, also with two targets at each distance. The target will be a disappearing one, staying in sight for three seconds at the 25 yard range and for five seconds at the 50 yards...
...through the gardens in the role of an Italian tyrant, discoursing the while on the greatness and license of the court of the Medicis. After puffing up the stairs, admittedly the stout English gentleman again, a great Flemish tapestry room would transform him into a portly burgher. Yet the sight of an Elizabethan fireplace would make him the happiest of all. Sinking naturally into the nearest eighteenth century chair, despite signs to the contrary, he would muse away an hour culled from England's past...