Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commerce has increased, wages have been lucrative. . . . So have we also grown and expanded for the benefit of the world . . ."-from President Coolidge's proclamation of November 29, 1928 as a day of general thanksgiving and prayer. ¶President Coolidge received the trustees of Lions International convening and sight-seeing in Washington. Also, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, who were in town trying to adjust a $1,090,273.56 back-tax dispute with the Treasury Department. Mrs. Fairbanks (Mary Pickford) did the conferring. Mr. Fairbanks wore a beret, played golf...
...gloomy tale is retold with vindictive emphasis. The names of the anarchists are Macready and Capraro; Macready is engaged to marry the lovely and emotional daughter of a restauranteur who himself confesses in court to the murder for which Macready and Capraro are electrocuted, out of sight of the audience. In the courtroom scene, far more exciting than its actual model, Macready asks pertinent questions and Capraro is full of idealistic gentleness...
...present at the finish, called the positions. Dorando was leading; Hefferon. a South African, was second and Hayes, who started slowly, took third place in the last six miles. Just after 5 o'clock the stadium track was cleared and at 23 minutes past, Dorando and Hefferon were in sight, running heavily down a hillside...
...those in Ames' "Merchant of Venice". But by this time Violet Carlson, yellow-haired and bandy-legged, has started being the only soubrette with a baby voice who was ever funny, and Barnett Parker and Barry Lupino have burlesqued all Flanders hip boots and picture hats out of sight...
...that the ghosts have walked and the witches ridden their broomsticks in fact, now that Hallowe'en has made its yearly visit and there remains no reason why the Georgian's pumpkin pies would be made of squash--there is nothing in sight to break the expanse of featureless days until Armistice Day, some twelve days hence. One of the best ways to start on this stretch is to attend Professor Kittredge's lecture on Chaucer at 10 o'clock in Sever 11 this morning. Professor Kittredge is one of the foremost authorities on this first of English poets...