Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heavily, failed to leave the ground. Captain Fonck said afterwards: "I intended to stop the plane but I was afraid it would tear into the crowd of automobiles. . . ." The crippled monster reached a gully at the runway's end, turned a cartwheel, right wing down, and vanished from sight...
...Broadway success in stock,--such it is; and perhaps an ambitious attempt for Mr. Clive and his company. Yet, on second sight, it becomes quite possible. For all the effects are broad, drawn with a stub For acceptable performance, they require more consistency and steadiness than subtlety. The play depends chiefly upon three characters, the three principles of the triangle. Perhaps of these, Allan Mowbray, as the Italian grape grower eager for a wife to enjoy the sunset half of his life with him, is most realistically played. But Nan Marriett Watson as Amy, who comes from Frisco...
...title of the film was orginally advertised as Scraps, until Joseph M. Schenck and Douglas Fairbanks saw the working print. In the gospel according to St. Luke, there are passages about the lowly sparrow who is not lost sight of in the eyes of God. In the film Mary gathers her little "sparrows" to her heart. Said Mr. Fairbanks: "Even without Miss Pickford it would still be a great picture...
...Officers. The resignation of President John Henry MacCracken of Lafayette College (elder brother of President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassal? College) was effective Oct. 1. No successor was in public sight. . . . Lincoln University (Chester Co., Pa.; for Negroes) entered its third successive year without any president at all, three candidates having been approached in-two years and found wanting some other post...
Tall and muscular, he kept his hairless, perfumed bronze body immaculate, especially his teeth, "white as hailstones," which stood far apart from assiduous picking. He eschewed jewelry but put antimony on his eyebrows to sharpen his sight. He let a black wilderness of beard riot down to conceal one thin line of fur on his deep chest, but he clipped his mustache. On special occasions he shaved his poll. Divinely conferred, a large mole adorned his back...