Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fish cakes was served in the university Commons. The undergraduate body- "two nephews of the president and the professor's son"- complained bitterly about the fish cakes. They added that the butter was bad. For many years thereafter, good wholesome fare was served in Commons, at the sight of which Harvard students laid down their table implements; sweet dairy butter was passed at which they bit their thumbs. Things reached a crisis about the butter, in colonial days, when a "Butter Rebellion" was organized, and Harvard funny men chanted a petition alleging that "our butter stinketh,- give us therefore...
...like a pair of renovated shoes?its polish is new, its cracks are old. It flashes through a series of pedal acrobatics-farandoles, shuffles, clogs, hornpipes, jigs. Many light-legged ladies agilely provide that atmosphere of deviltry which always overwhelms the very old and the very young at the sight of 20 or more female limbs rapidly manipulated to music. Occasionally William Howard, comedian of the monocle school, advances to the footlights in order to lure back those holders of seats who have begun to make determined, surreptitious exits on all fours up the centre aisle. He imitates Harry Lauder...
...winner is lucky to be going stag", continued Mr. Holmes, who is married. "You can travel much faster that way. Another advantage of this mode of travel is that one can walk through the shopping district without having to buy everything in sight...
...life went on, broadening and brightening like sun-glinting circles in a blue water on a Summer's day, and so shall it go on and on even after the physical body which set going those waves of light in the pool of time shall have sunk out of sight into the gulfs of eternity. They promote him to the rank of full professorship "Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory." But he promoted himself, years ago to a higher rank full professor of that finest of the fine arts, the art of nourishing creative talents...
...Wilmer operated twice on her eyes, saved the sight of one. She learned that he had just paid, out of his own funds, a deficit of $6,000 incurred by his hospital, that he wanted to work at certain researches but lacked the time, the money. Forthwith she incorporated an endowment fund, called it the Wilmer Foundation, enlisted the help of prominent philanthropists. Money came rapidly. The Rockefeller Board of Education offered, if $1,500,000 could be raised, to add another $1,500,000 for the establishment of a great hospital for eye diseases, under Dr. Wilmer's direction...