Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philip Boone must have, I said; and I turned to the pictures within to see how the other articles had expressed the spirit of whimsey which must twinkle in story books. I did not find dear Kate Green-away as I had hoped, but I was gladdened by the sight of eighteenth-century villagers dashing round the Mulberry Bush portrayed by the happy fingers of G. Cox; and Red Riding-hood's thatched cottage; with the villainous wolf standing on the door-step, touched with an eerie grace by the pen of Louis Reynal. What could a child's paper...
...made his chief issue the King of England, swung his huge hams of fists, slung mud. Of his onetime intimate, Dr. Robertson, Mr. Thompson said: "The doc is slinging mud. I'm not descending to personalities, but let me tell you if you want to see a nasty sight you; watch Doc Robertson eating in a restaurant. Eggs in his whiskers, soup on his vest: you'd think the doc got his education driving a garbage wagon...
...characters that constitute the greatest charm of the book--it is that very elusive thing called atmosphere. The little French village of Buissac is presented with all the force of one who knows whereof she writes. Seasons change, floods rage, the plot wavers, but one never loses sight of the French spirit as seen through English eyes. For those who like their romances tragic and especially for the ladies "The Old Countess" is certain to be entertaining story. It could have been made very saccharine, but instead it is filled with a rather quiet charm...
...spent his entire life in the Kaiser's army. The realism of this old gentleman's character may be somewhat difficult for the American of today to grasp. Gis concept of absolute paternal rule, his narrow, strict moral sense is, to be sure, not an every day sight among the present inhabitants of this country. But there is certainly no American living who need search further than a Methodist grandparent or a German neighbor for first hand evidence that such Puritainism and paternalism as that emboided in Sudermann's Colonel Scnwartze is not entirely foreign to his own country...
...despite a steadily increasing interest shown during the past few years. The chief objection to boxing as a form of intercollegiate activity has emanated from the stigma attached to the professional "fight" game, and the fear that unfriendly feeling among rival spectators would be aroused and fostered by the sight of men "fighting" in the ring. Opposition to the sport on the grounds that it lends itself to instances of brutality and unnecessary injury to the participants is to be considered less seriously. These evils can and have been eliminated through careful and intelligent regulation of the competition...