Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second diplomatic coup was in 1926. With the franc falling to 3 cents, and no bottom in sight, anti-American sentiment reached a peak. Mr. Herrick took several hundred thousand dollars voted by Congress to purchase a new Embassy and bought francs, all the francs he could, "to show America's belief in the stability of France...
Irwin Hood ("lke") Hoover, has for 30 years been major domo of the White House. He knows all Washington by sight, and what is more, in what order it can be seated around a dinner table without offending anyone. He is of infinite utility around the White House. Last fortnight he telephoned a store in haste to order necessaries...
...sight for the gods which no man paid to see was the royal guest from the Netherlands, the good-hearted but extremely pompous Prince Consort of Queen Wilhelmina. As this personage moved about Oslo, with tinkling spurs, jingling medals and a large clanking sword, it was permissible to exclaim: "There goes His Royal Highness, Prince Hendrik Vladimir Albertus Ernst of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Prince of the Netherlands, Duke of Mecklenburg, Vice-Admiral of the Fleet, Lieutenant-General of the Netherlandic and Indo-Netherlandic Armies, Chevalier of the Order of the Black Eagle, of the Order of the Seraphihs, of St. Andrew...
...first printed code of orthodox Jewish life was published a quarter-century after the Gutenberg Bible (1452). It was Rabbi Jacob 'ben Asher's famed Arba Turim (Code of the Jews). For five centuries it disappeared from the sight of orthodox Jews. Lately it was found in Italy bearing on its Hebraic pages three visas of papal inquisitioners who had examined it for heresies. Last week it was taken to Manhattan and placed in the Jewish Theological Seminary. It was purchased with funds (of concealed volume) donated by Theatrical Producer Abraham Lincoln Erlanger...
...pitching berths. Howard Whitmore '29, only "H" mound-man on the squad, R. R. Ketchum '29, E. L. Molloy '29 and W. K. Page '31 seem to have the edge. The complete staff will number six hurlers, however, so that a battle for the other positions is in sight. The catching job, held down last season by the hard-hitting W. W. Lord '28, has as its leading contenders this year T. W. Gilligan '31 and J. D. Dudley '31. These two men have been doing most of the work back of the plate...