Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moving for the moment. Because of a tree, Espinosa could not see Jones or the white speck that was his ball. But presently the speck rolled out from behind the tree. It had to go up over a bump in the green. Then it dropped out of Espinosa's sight. A second later it dropped out of everyone's sight. The hushed gallery burst into roaring applause, and Epinosa knew that he would have to play...
...foot Marconi-rigged schooner, reversing the journey of the Nina of Christopher Columbus after which she was named, won the Queen of Spain's cup. There was a $20 gold piece nailed on the after-end of the dog house, a prize for the first to sight land after the U. S. coastline had narrowed to invisibility. Luis, the Norwegian cook, won it. When the ship arrived at Santander a smart swarthy person greeted her from the deck of his yacht and explained: "I am the King of Spain." The crew was embarrassed. Joint-Owner Elihu...
...upward dashes. The Post's career after the memorable Christmas of 1934 was shown continuing vaguely off the side of the graph with about four million circulation at the end of 1937. Liberty, however, was shown dashing onward and upward with such verve that it went quite out of sight at the top of the graph in the autumn of 1936. Readers could only conclude that Cousins Patterson & McCormick publish, on their own showing, a magazine where the sky is the limit...
Despite the rage of Rio, the choice of demure Lisl Goldarbeiter was enthusiastically greeted elsewhere. At the sight of the slender Viennese, trembling with emotion in her green silk bathing suit, even veteran press correspondents were affected. The mother of another contestant rhapsodized...
Walking like Agag in the sight of the Lord, delicately, Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, apostolic delegate, senior Archbishop of Mexico, and Emilio Portes Gil, President of Mexico, still jockeyed last week for a final settlement of Mexico's religious problem. Conferences progressed but neither side would make a definite statement...