Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with inspiring speeches that always began with the word "Men!" He remembered the buffet supper in the Union; the laughter at the Tally-ho joke; the speeches in P. B. H., and the ice cream he didn't get. Hazy memories, but brought back in sharp relief by the sight of these young, eager faces...
...turned a deaf ear to the throaty gurgles of Guardian editors catching their first sight of hard cash in over a year and lapsed again into reverie, permitting a mental tear to soften his brain. Oh, to be a Freshman one more. To have four years of certain free summers ahead. To be free from having to think of something to be. Vag experienced slight nausea at his own nostalgia, and his thoughts swung to what courses he might sit in on this year. There was always Merriman's first lecture, a phenomenon in itself. There would be Holcombe...
...being carried by car from New York, where it had arrived home from Europe with daily workouts in the ship's swimming pool between men's and women's hours. As the car was heaving in sight of Memorial Hall, it suddenly pitched into the ditch, leaving the shell to continue along the road for some ten or fifteen feet. At that it only suffered from minor scratches and bruises, but fate had yet more in store...
...comes when he loses patience with the local hoodlums, takes off his coat, licks the daylights out of them with his bare fists. When his sabbatical year is over and he goes absently back to law school, the rackets are broken and he has beaten up about everyone in sight...
...Author Vercel's previous four novels published in the U. S. (In Sight of Eden, Captain Conan, Salvage, Lena), the story is told in terse, dramatic style. And, like them, Tides of Mont St.-Michel is about equally good and bad. Good are the descriptions of storms, fogs, quicksands, natural violence; bad, melodramatic are the descriptions of the storms and fogs of human relations...