Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...band was playing abominably. ... I spoke to the bandmaster in the sight of other persons but not in their hearing...
Forty-two horses came out of the paddock gate and moved up the midway to the barrier. Some walked quietly and lightly, with the jockeys sitting up high to save their backs even in this short walk; others skittered sideways, excited by the sight of other horses, by the crowd (250,000) that showed like a dark ocean along the fences, washing up into a wave in the grandstand. It had been raining in the morning, but the rain had stopped; the sky was full of shifting clouds through which the sunlight shone in patches. Three times the horses, picked...
...soon as they began to run, the crowd lost sight of them. The field was covered with mist through which, except in front of the stand, nothing could be seen very clearly. In the boxes sat a few notables, not many, for the Grand National is not a smart race but just a dangerous and famous one. Sir Thomas Royden of the Cunard line was there. He had ordered the liner Scythia into dock at Liverpool so that people who wanted to see the race could sleep on board. The King of Afghanistan had spent the night as his guest...
April is here, Easter is almost a reality, vacation is in sight; and professor, wishing to sweeten that one little week all the more by contrast, fill these remaining few days of labor to capacity. But even the student up to his neck in examinations is aroused from that apathetic condition by the cheerful activity of the Democratic Club, whose busy members shame the moans of the weary by their energy. For has not presidential year rolled around, bringing balm to reporters, Democrats to Houston, and raisons d'etre to undergraduate political clubs...
...wily Mrs. Crane has promised to give Mr. Crane his freedom in case he can find her a fitting successor to himself and since the appealing and wealthy Mr. King has been introduced with this end in view, it is right & fair that Mrs. Crane should love him at sight. But the fancy of the other lady, doubtless magnetized as much by the gold of which he is supposed to have large quantities as by the sterling qualities of his character, has lightly turned to thoughts of Mr. King. Mrs. Crane gets him, but only at the very last moment...