Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ineffable patient of the Vatican's Dr. Aminta Milani has proved a difficult one. Long known to be gruffly impatient of other people's illnesses, so that wise underlings kept out of his sight when ailing, Pius XI resolutely declined to undergo a thorough physical examination. He not only was shocked at the idea of appearing naked before anyone but even balked at having his pulse counted, until lately Dr. Milani managed to excite his interest in the technique of this simple operation. One story ladled out last fortnight by the "Vatican Voices" was that for no less...
...rear of the stage's front apron, lays Isaac on a stone altar and is prevented from slaying him only by the sudden intercession of the Heavenly Host. The latter consists of rows of angels banked 60 ft. higher and seeming to reach out of sight. Coiling up and down tne heights and planes and depths of the amazing Bel Geddes stage, the legends of Jacob's loss of Rachel, Joseph's dispatch into Egypt. Moses and the fugitive children of Israel, Saul, David and Solomon follow in rich procession, dipping down into the synagogue itself from...
...Life in the Houses becomes more pleasant and comfortable if the inmates are on friendly terms with the men who stand at the gates, and the Winthrop House petition bears striking witness to the service which these men perform. It is to be hoped Lehman Hall will not lose sight of the value to the residents of friendly dealings with those who serve, yet only stand and wait...
Footprints on the ceiling was the eerie sight which confronted residents of the fifth floor of Matthews Hall on their return from luncheon yesterday afternoon...
...whose father had worked in a gasworks and naturally died of a gastric ulcer) complained that her niece insisted on becoming a nurse, so "I always tells her that's just the job for her, as she has got a heart like a flint, and she loves the sight of blood...