Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cuddled in many an upturned palm were diamonds. Shaken lovingly from soft, drawstring pouches they twinkled and tumbled in the hot light of three gas jets. The sight, the low babble of bidding, was evidence enough for detectives...
...Doesn't he look well!" has become the stock remark of tourists who catch sight of President Coolidge in northwestern Wisconsin. Brown, brisk, he continued his vacation last week unirritated. He cast flies on the Brule River at all hours and put the largest fishes which unsuccessfully tried to eat the flies into the Cedar Lodge "live box," so that he could display them to visitors or eat them at pleasure. He kept his semiweekly office hours in the high school library at Superior, and made one unscheduled trip on which Mrs. Coolidge accompanied him. She sat quietly...
...resultant activities were most distressing to another family group, headed by Salvo, a wealthy social climber, who prospered on unscrupulous control of Sicilian sulphur mines. Salvo had an insane wife, a jovial old-maid sister, and an invalid daughter, Dianella, of delicate charm. Having married off the old maid, sight unseen, to the prince, Lando's widowed father, Salvo, aspired to bind himself yet closer to the aristocratic Laurentanos by marrying Dianella to Lando...
Public school sight saving classes have been established in 80 cities in 18 states. Large type books, ideal lighting, movable desks, special teaching methods save the sight of children hampered by defective vision...
DIAMOND LIL-A sight-seeing tour of the old Bowery, with Mae West as the principal attraction (TIME, April...