Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bootlegging girl--oh, dear, what is the younger generation coming to?--appears on the scene, chased by bootleggers. It turns out that she had rescued Jimmie from--drowning one day when she happened to be speeding by in a mahogany speedboat, and it had been love at first sight all along although on account of complications, loyalties, and the rest of the usual good old hokum, everybody isn't happy until the end of the last...
...inundated regions were graphically described last night by Sproul, who declared that the flooded towns and river valleys were an inspiring sight...
...content in 1924 to see the Socialist Party merge its energies with the energies of the Farmer-Laborites, the American Federation of Labor and other bodies at the Conference for Progressive Political Action, which backed his fellow Wisconsinite, the late Robert M. LaFollette. With not even a LaFollette in sight, Mr. Berger will probably confine his attention to legislative reforms, such as unrestricted immigration, minimum wage and child labor laws...
...autumnal garb it is even more so. Last spring when one half of the Yard was in the throes of an abdominal operation the scene was still sufficiently vernal and sufficiently inspirational to warrant odes and lyrics. And now, when there is nothing more disturbing than the sight of John Harvard in the hands of his tailor the sight is worthy not of mere editorials but of an urban Words-worth. While it is true that familiarity with some things breeds nothing but contempt, familiarity with this panorama breeds nothing but continued appreciation...
...Manning who had gone with one of his daughters (Frances) to the opening of the second yearly Cathedral Horse Show. Earnings of the show fortify the endowment of the Sportsmen's Bay in the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine,* which under Bishop Manning's own sight has been raising its gorgeous walls on Manhattan's heights. The Bishop, at the Cathedral Horse Show, made plain his pleasure with sports. "The horse show is a real tribute to sport," said Bishop Manning. "It exemplifies to the highest degree the spirit which is responsible for the Sportsmen...