Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...north. ¶"Snip!" went shears in the hands of John Mays, White House valet, "snip, snip, snip!" The President was having his hair cut. Not unduly selfconscious, the President had the operation performed on the State Lodge porch while, despatches reported, "many tourists stopped to gaze at the sight." ¶ Prudence Prim, pet white collie of Mrs. Coolidge, died at Fort Meade, S. Dak. Cause: Distemper with complications. ¶Inasmuch as President Coolidge usually does not attend meetings at which a Democrat is the principal speaker, his ears must last week have heard strange sounds and subversive doctrine. For, attending...
...against numbing water. . . . One by one they dropped out of the race. Paul Chotteau, after 26 hours, gave up six miles from the finish. The German Vierkoetter surrendered after 14 hours, declaring he would attempt the distance again, when his digestion was functioning normally. Mrs. Dimond dropped out within sight of the goal. Mrs. Schoemmel, who with Charles Toth of Boston unfortunately steered six miles out of the course, left the water after covering 26 miles in 18% hours. Forty-one contestants ended in the hospital ship. None, however, were said to be in serious condition-just cramps and cold...
...That American Legion band, with its gigantic bandmaster is a sight I shall never forget and I saw London after the armistice." ?A. R. Gatter of San Francisco...
...56th time in 100 years and the 17th time since 1900, the moon's course last week intersected the imaginary line between the earth and the sun at a point close enough to the earth, so that the sun was blotted from the sight of earth-dwellers. The moon's shadow, an oval patch of twilight some 40 miles wide, fell first on the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Ireland, sweeping across Liverpool and Hartlepool to the North Sea, across Scandinavia and Siberia, disappearing over the Aleutian Islands off Alaska...
...caves or cellars, mankind made merry and flocked to the totality belt for observation, lay and scientific. In the British Isles there were eclipse houseparties and a national holiday. Scandinavians, accustomed to staying up late at this season of the midnight sun, redoubled their nocturnal festivities to view a sight that will not again be seen by most of Europe until 1961, by England until...