Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pirn Passes By. Because the Guild had the happy idea of reviving its onetime success by A. A. Milne, it is enjoying the sight of the Garrick Theatre† filled to capacity for the first time this year. Into the home of an all-English country gentleman, George Marden (Dudley Digges), hobbles quaint Mr. Pirn (Erskine Sanford), his memory given to wandering off on appealing but unreliable excursions of second childhood. In an inadvertent moment he mentions the vagaries of one Jacob Tellsworthy, who, unknown to Mr. Pirn, is Mrs. Marden's first husband, believed in all good faith...
...others yet suffered physical agonies most heart-rending sooner than save Himself, The necessity for the suffering lies in the evil genius of Caiaphas, the high priest. But Producer Cecil B. DeMille's emphasis throughout is upon the pictured Christ's ability to straighten crooked feet, restore sight, raise the dead, upon the horribly graphic depictions of tortures...
Christ is shown 1) curing the boy Mark of his lameness, 2) restoring the sight of a blind girl, 3) exorcising the seven devils from the body of Mary of Magdala, 4) causing Peter the Fisherman to cast a hook and pull up a fish in whose mouth is wedged a silver coin, with which Jesus renders unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, 5) quickening the corpse of Lazarus, 6) saving the Woman Taken In Adultery with the admonition, "he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone," 7) driving the money changers...
Telegraph wires are supposedly high in the air, but in many cases the lower stands of wire either appeared to be resting on the water or were entirely out of sight...
...centuries men have dreamed of the eye that would penetrate stone walls and miles of space. Last week sight at a distance (television) came true. In Manhattan, in the auditorium of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Walter S. Gifford, President of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., talked to his Vice President, General J. J. Carty, in Washington, D. C. Said President Gifford, dapper, cheery: "Hello, General, you're looking fine. I see you have your glasses on." Out of the loudspeaker, General Carty's bass voice boomed: "Does it-ah-does it flatter me?" President Gifford carefully viewed...