Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many people in the U. S. know Liggett's Drug Store. Enticing the eye (as any good drug store should) with its walls of water-clear glass, its ranked bottles of yellow and orange and blue, its showcases piled with new brushes, sponges, utensils of vanity, the mingled sight of prophylactics, vanilla ice cream sodas, popular face powders, this Liggett's establishment is repeated in dozens of U. S. cities, always neat, always glittering, always the same...
...effects and costume designing. Mr. Jorgulesco has been studying in Germany under Sievert and Reinbardt. Diction, phonetics and special training in Shakespeare will be in the care of Misses Lenore Chippendale and Agnes Elliott Scott. Miss Lilla Wyman will give instruction in ballet and pantomime, and Eric Kalphurst in sight-reading and make-up. Mr. Will Ghere is to be dean of the play-producing department...
People resent the sight of a corpse because it reminds them of their own mortality. Cherishing the memory of the dead one, they treat his clay with reverence although secretly detesting the stiff and putrefying souvenir left behind. If a corpse must lie in the same room with the quick, its face is covered with a cloth or dissembled with cosmetics. Newspapers have recognized this unwillingness to look up on cadavers, and it has been a journalistic tradition never to print pictures of those killed by violence except for purposes of identification, and then only after the photograph has been...
...ivory tablets were provided for the composition of mots in pencil, would the written small-talk charm? Would it scintillate and glitter? No, thought the editors of the Harvard Crimson (undergraduate daily). To test the well-known fact that a woman's wit is quenched by the sight of a sheet of paper like a candle by a wet snuffer, they last week invited the girls of Radcliffe College to contribute to their humorous column, The Crime...
...other (normal) daughter she was described as follows: "She was utterly helpless. Her body was terribly twisted. She couldn't walk, couldn't feed herself and was not able even to brush a fly from her face. The noises she made were animal-like and frightened strangers. The sight of her eating was so revolting that I couldn't stand it to watch...