Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hero turned a spotlight on a rowboat full of reporters who came to inquire, picked up his anchor, and slipped away at midnight. Next day an airplane swooped over Hero's boat, the Mouette* as it putputted eastward with Hero's Wife at the wheel, Hero ducking out of sight...
...Daily News reporter who had known Lieut. Lindbergh in his pre-hero days at Roosevelt Field, set out for an interview. He reminded the Colonel of the good old days when he liked to pose and asked for just one picture of the Hero's wife, still out of sight below. But the Hero, who, according to Mr. Dolan,* smiled his "freakish, vaudeville smile," had "nothing...
...efforts to belittle the dinner and to emphasize party dissensions served to rally many a Democrat to its defense. Senators who had declined asked permission to attend. Bishop Cannon denied he had attempted to scare anybody away. The sight of chuckling Republicans aroused party pride. Leaders again bent themselves grimly to the task of harmony...
...fishes for spells and lectures for hours. He has written a book, Bait-Casting, published by Longmans, Green in ordinary and de luxe binding. He is about to publish another. "Smiling Bill" Vogt is one of those rare men who have almost precise coordination of sight, thought and movement. He has a powerful wrist and a leathery thumb which let him dispense with reel brakes, drags or level winding devices. He can hold a fish even if its fight bends his rod nearly double. At 75 feet with a fly-rod and line he can slice a peeled banana...
...calmly putting on her front and gets publicity for that very reason. What applies to the corporation applies also to the individual. . . . You cannot go on the assumption that you are as good as the rest of folks. You should take the attitude that you are a damned sight better...