Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even now there are many who may be won over at once by the claim of a French scientist that he had discovered in the human body a "paroptic" sense, or one making sight possible through the pores of the skin. In proof of this the doctor had his subject blindfolded with heavy cloth for ordinary light lays, and with leadfoil for X-rays. The subject then "read", printed cards held a short distance from his nose...
...From there on, all that we hear of the war or the Revolution comes as an echo from the Northwest, or from the months of inn-keepers, shepherds, Lamas, or officers of "Red" of "White" detachments. Once, it is true the Yenisei River, in its springy floods brings a sight that neither author nor readers will ever forget: "Watching this glorious withdrawal of the ice. I was filled with terror and revolt at seeing the awful spoils which the Yenisei bore away in this annual retreat. These were the bodies of the executed counter-revolutionaries . . . Hundreds of these bodies with...
...recorded appearance of the "King of the World". A Buddhist legend, a myth if you will; this King appeared in India and Siam over two thousand years ago. And "he blessed the people with a golden apple with the figure of a Lamb above it. The blind received their sight, the dumb spoke, the deaf heard, the crippled freely moved and the dead arose, wherever the eyes of the King of the World rested"! This same King also appeared at a monastery in Mongolia in 1890, and prophesied the World War, the tall of eight great kings, and the Revolution...
...many children have wept at the sight of poor little Oliver Twist dragging his emaciated shanks across Dickens's pages to plead for more soup! Or have wailed to see Jackle Coogan doing the same across the silver shest. The modern Oliver asks once and if the soup is not forthcoming, he lets drive at the cook with the soup bowl. At Yale there are five hundred modern Oliver in the freshman class. For some time they have been writing polite protests against the rule that freshmen must eat at the Commons, along with complaints about the quality and quantity...
...line. Albert Woodruff, as the villain fills us with the same sort of creepy horror that the tomb-like doctor does in the last-named play. Everyone shudders at a man who can make his pulse stop beating at will or who goes into a murderous fit at the sight of a pair of fire-tongs or can conceive and carry out such a devilish scheme of vengeance as this neo-maniac in "It is the Law". Mr. Hohi fills the part well; it is he who makes the play...