Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since childhood David Bowes-Lyon has enjoyed the occult reputation of possessing second sight. This was most strikingly demonstrated when he absolutely refused to believe official War Office statements that his brother Michael had been killed in France...
...this condition, aggravated no doubt by the exhilirating sight of a usually sedate Yard swarming with uniforms, that last Saturday delivered a mortal blow to the resolution formed by the Vagabond after last year's Yale game not to let himself be lured from the narrow path of duty by anything so alien to his proper sphere of interest as a football game. At the first sign or the coming of the Hanoverian horde nothing could save it, and last night its remains were buried by its sorrowing owner in the bottommost cellar of Widener...
...which the heroine did not invade the locker room in order to embrace the all-American fullback. Here is something worth considering, but it is to be feared that the author of so many Vanities will never neglect a good dressing room scene. A real contribution is in sight, on the other hand, if he succeeds in making his athletes dance through their formations without first shouting a series of numbers at them or calling a huddle in the middle of the stage. Coaches will do well to keep their eyes on the Vanities...
...horror-stricken Architect Edouard Moravicz all this seemed too much to bear. Fleeing from the awful sight and sounds he sought a pistol, found Death...
...Rutherford is doing likewise with the International Bible Students, Mrs. Annie Besant with the Theosophists, Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson with the Four Square Gospellers. Theirs have been as much a profession of new business as a profession of new faiths. All of them, as soon as wealth came in sight had their schismatics, men and women who broke away from the prospering religious institution to form buccaneering organizations of their own. Judaism has had its breakaways; and Christianity, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Mormonism. Mrs. Stetson was Christian Science's divergent...