Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...groom the sleek boats for "amateurs" to take the tiller in the races and a society that goes with them are all missing. Perhaps the cup yachts and their smaller sisters are not, as many a fishing skipper is apt to term them, just "damn toy boats"; but the sight of two vessels that have earned their way and can take the weather as it comes is bound to be a heart-warming one to every sailor. It doesn't make any particular difference who wins, and much of that will be in the breaks of the weather anyway. They...
...Adolf Hitler's daily doings had not been so fully accounted for in the press last week, janitors and lollers might have looked twice at a sight in a hearing room in the House Office Building. Even so, those who did look blinked. Up to testify before the Dies Committee on UnAmerican Activities strode a militant-looking Hitler counterpart clad in a brownshirt uniform and Sam Browne belt, with a dab of mustache and a Führerish haircut. Cameras clicked and Chairman Dies, who had lately been short of headlines, beamed...
...second AAA to the Senate floor this year. In his recent campaign he sometimes blamed the bill on the New Deal, sometimes claimed credit for it. Last week, with cotton prices tumbling under a bumper August carryover of 13,400,000 bales and no increased AAA relief in sight, Cotton Ed set his weather-vane for good...
...through an experience calculated to turn even Conrad's seamen green around the gills. A hurricane begins when wind velocity reaches 75 miles an hour. On the second day the Archimedes, its rudder gone, is broadside in a 200-mile blow and the barometer has dropped out of sight. Hatch covers are sucked off like corks out of a bottle. The funnel is gone, the boilers flooded; there is no food, no water, no light. The Chinese crew is huddled in a corner like a half-dead pile of fish. The officers, although still on their feet...
...Ovid, N. Y. He nourished the little school with $300,000 and moved it to Ithaca. Alike in appearance to Arthur Train's venerable Ephraim Tutt, of Saturday Evening Post stories fame, Ezra's tall, spare figure, set off with frock coat and shiny stovepipe hat, was a familiar sight on the campus. His checks and gifts were also familiar--and welcome...