Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insulted the headmaster's wife, tried to run away, been put in coventry, acted as coxswain of the crew and finally been offered a job on the Queen Mary that his appreciation of Russell-Cotes's advantages becomes complete. By this time, in addition to the familiar sight of Master Freddie keeping a stiff upper lip without letting it interfere with the clipped precision of his diction, audiences will have been treated to a presumably authentic glimpse of how England cares for its underprivileged youth. Most exciting shot: little Lord Jeff falling from the yardarm of a facsimile...
...Wilson gave them their chance. Three Czech patriots actually achieved the nation's independence: gaunt, bearded Philosophy Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, who died nine months ago; the Czech soldier-astronomer General Milan Stefánik, who was killed in an airplane crash in 1919 when freedom was in sight; and Eduard Benes...
...Davies made a final trip, which ended fortnight ago, through the Ukraine and the Black Sea area. To the inhabitants of Caucasian and Crimean ports the sight of the Davies 316-foot yacht Sea Cloud was a never-ending diversion. They thronged the piers to watch the Ambassador step from the yacht's speedy trim launch manned by snappily costumed, briskly saluting seamen...
...wearing her badge, had to be rescued by London bobbies. Last week she incensed the Czechs by strolling the streets of Prague, swastika in her lapel. Display of the Nazi badge is forbidden. Anxious Prague police asked the British Legation to induce Unity to keep her badge out of sight "for her own safety...
...effort of a carpenter putting the last lick on the last nail in a wall. But in San Francisco and in Swarthmore, Pa. last week, two new murals were opened to the public in the midst of such community excitement that the paintings themselves were all but lost sight...