Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second rate amusement. In this hour when political frenzy has only just ceased to run rampant, the turbulent election of Andrew, Jackson comes as a welcome reminiscence. Even more acceptable, however, to us thin-blooded moderns for whom the only racy element in politics is verbal abuse, is the sight of a presidential candidate coming down from his parlor to exchange black eyes with the maligner of his backwoods wife, or, when president, firing his whole cabinet because they and their wives whisper unkind things about his favorite Peggy O'Neal. The career of this strong-minded young...
...Claire Trevor and Evelyn Venable, both rather neutral young women, pretend to be riding high so that their mother back in Austria will accept money to be spent to her blind eyes. When mamma comes to America the deception is a little harder, and then when she regains her sight there is the utmost consternation as to how to pull the wool over the freshly-cured-eyes. It's pretty sugary up to this point, but when Mother Jane Darwell discovers the fraud, things get stickier than ever...
Thus far astronomers have determined its brightness to be of the ninth magnitude, just beyond sight of the naked eye, have charted its position and the comparatively rapid rate at which it moves across the heavens...
...shipowners' ranks, as 27 coastwise companies made separate overtures to the longshoremen, the chief Pacific union with which they were concerned since they hire almost all their seamen on the cheaper Atlantic. Deep-sea Pacific shippers still were obliged to consider all maritime unions. With this schism in sight, Harry Bridges would have preferred delaying strike action. But the Maritime Federation he had so carefully built up proved his Frankenstein. Standing to gain nothing by a compromise between coastwise shippers and Pacific longshoremen, the other unions in the Federation demanded a strike. They were led in this...
Written when Huey P. Long was still alive, the novel represented U. S. Fascism as making headway in 1936. Last week, with no such trend in sight, the time was billed in the programs as "Very Soon-or Never." The main outlines of the novel are preserved, but instead of trying to dramatize a patchwork of fragments from the book, Collaborators Lewis & Moffitt wisely created some new incidents on which to prop the play. One of them shows Corpo troops going from house to house to break radio tubes because Senator Trowbridge is broadcasting news of Corpo atrocities from Canada...