Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Away in the distance tooted the whistle of a train. Soon it appeared in sight, belching forth steam and smoke. A little later, General Pershing stepped from his compartment and received the ovations of the assembled multitude...
...stage of Aeolian Hall, Manhattan, the sleek black bulk of a pianoforte. An audience waited, marveling, expectant. The stage grew dark. An attendant appeared, tiptoed to the candelabras, lit each candle in turn with a glimmering taper. Scarce breathed the audience now, so grave, so holy, was the sight. A young woman in a rose-colored frock suddenly detached herself from the gloom, stood bowing in the soft-lustre before her instrument. She was Marie Leschetizky, final wife of the late Theodor Leschetizky, famed Viennese music teacher,* about to make her Manhattan debut. After due trouble with her chair...
...Wall Street money market, at about the same time finished its magnificent new headquarters-also at practically peak building prices. But until recently, J. P. Morgan & Co. merely put some inexpensive iron fire-escapes on the Mills Building and waited for lower building costs. Evidently those have come into sight, for J. P. Morgan & Co. have now transferred the leasehold to the Equitable Trust Co., which intends to erect on the Mills Building site a 34-story office building. Construction will start in the spring of 1926, and should be completed by the spring...
...audience that scarce breathed, so grave, so holy was the sight...
...been such a tremendous increase in the traveling nobility of Europe in recent years that one can no longer get the satisfaction of belonging to a select minority. The old stamping grounds of royalty have been literally ruined by too much competition. The surfeited European now yawns at sight of a duke: there are so many of them...