Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...streamed to the Bishop's palace and broke through the gates. "Heil Meisser! Heil Meisser!" they roared. After an interval the Bishop appeared at an upper window. He had scarcely opened his mouth to speak before someone seized him by the coattails and yanked him back out of sight. A few minutes later his wife appeared in his place...
...Steam Navigation Co., largely British-owned, had done its best to spread work, a few hours a day per man. But that came to only $2 a week. These Magyar miners and their families were starving. It had come to the point last week where their mouths watered at sight of the fat little pit ponies, sweating in the lamplight. Up from the mine they suddenly sent an ultimatum: either the owners raise their pay to $3.50 a week or they would have one good dinner on the ponies and then smash the ventilators. Death by suffocation they preferred...
...Conte Grande which was flying the yellow-&-white papal flag and bearing His Eminence Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli. Secretary of State to Pope Pius XI (TIME, Oct. 1). As the liner proceeded up the broad River Plate, a flagship banged out a 21-gun salute and all craft in sight broke out bunting. Through the bright spring morning air sounded the bells of Buenos Aires' 103 churches. Shore batteries rumbled through another long salute and Cardinal Pacelli was welcomed off his ship by Argentina's President Augustin P. Justo. Escorted in a coach through four miles of people-packed...
...Hasty Pudding Club two Boston newscameramen set up their tripods in the Harvard Yard, snapped Sophomore Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. wearing brassiere and panties over the costume of a Pudding initiate. On the edge of a crowd of students Freshman John Roosevelt, youngest son of the President, caught sight of the cameras, demanded the plates of his brother. Refused, he leaped on the back of the nearest photographer, wrested the negatives from the camera, exposed them to the light. Meanwhile the other cameraman was slipping quietly away. Long-legged John raced through the Yard after him, made a flying tackle...
...DARING YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE-William Saroyan-Random House ($2.50). Last week a new writer appeared on the U. S. horizon. Not much bigger at first sight than a man's hand, this portent promised a change of weather to come, perhaps even a cyclone. All that had happened was a book of 26 "stories" by one William Saroyan, 26-year-old U. S.-Armenian. But readers of The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze opened their eyes at his Preface: "A writer can have ultimately, one of two styles: he can write in a manner...