Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Startled last week were Arkansans and their visitors rolling over Route 71 near Rogers as they rounded curves or topped hills to come upon the horrifying sight of Death itself. A supernaturally tall, black garbed figure, scythe draped mournfully over its left arm stood at the edge of the pavement, beckoning...
Before they were out of sight of Wake Island, rolling seas separated the two boats, and neither Captain Tobias-who had previously lost two ships-nor his men were ever found. The longboat with its spindly mast and tattered sail struggled on. The concert singers cheered the company with song. Eighteen days from Wake Island, the forlorn, pitiable band, too weak to row or bail, burned black by sun, grounded their boat at Guam. Only account of this extraordinary voyage seems to have been published in the magazine, The Friend, which Colonel Bicknell ran across...
...past activities in ''a decadent unhappy world" thus: "I had been something like an octopus with many arms, a psychic belly, and a highly developed pair of eyes." She learned "to live in the moment," learned self-sufficiency (except when Tony was out of her sight). Particularly she learned something that made it easy to write her candid memoirs, namely, the Indian belief that "the power goes out of truth as soon as it is told, spoken or written down...
...Quigley dropped his guard and went into a crouch: ("Well, what do you want us to do?") Professor Eastman straightened him up with a jarring left: ("The motion pictures should tell their stories on the screen truthfully according to human values. They should not lie about them.") At the sight of Socialist Norman Thomas climbing into the ring to join Professor Eastman's attack, Publisher Quigley retired to a neutral corner. Paramount News Assignment Editor William P. Montague took his place, gave ground a little when he admitted that newsreels perhaps tended to be superficial (see below) but blamed...
Except in the harbors of Finland and the Australian grain ports, nowhere else in the world was a sight to be seen like the spectacle last week on the blue water off Newport, R. I. Two oldtime, square-rigged windjammers sailed off together on a voyage. They were bound southeast few Bermuda, 660 miles away. So far as anyone knew this was the first formal match race in U. S. sailing history between two square-riggers, privately owned and under yacht pennants. Prizes were a special trophy offered by Commodore Van Santvoord Merle-Smith of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club...