Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Time-All- America team. After graduation, he entered brokerage and insurance. His first wife was Sophie Meldrim, Savannah, Ga. socialite who divorced him in 1925. His second was Actress Jeanne Eagels, who divorced him in 1928. His third was one Lottie Bruhn of El Paso, Tex., who dropped from sight after his death last September. Last week, as the pawnbroker wrote to Skull & Bones in New Haven which immediately bought Coy's relics, newshawks hustled around to see Lottie Bruhn Coy, found her working as a servant. Said...
...Italian banking city of Siena was fighting an economic death struggle with booming Florence as Duccio di Buoninsegna finished his altarpiece for the cathedral. The city's nine merchant magistrates declared a public holiday. Duccio and his altarpiece were paraded through the streets to the cathedral. At the sight the Siennese fell on their knees as all the church bells tolled. Siena's greatest masterpiece, this work marked both the end of the Byzantine influence which the Crusaders had brought back from Palestine and the beginning of an authentic Christian art in the West. Most of the altarpiece...
...Anna Case Mackay is one of our most beautiful Japanese irises. She is now in full bloom in all her glory with many more glorious Japanese irises, acres of them, a sight not to be forgotten. I invite you to come and see. . . . You will not be sorry...
...members, set up a Washington lobby to see that their cherished patent medicine advertising was not jeopardized, awarded annual prizes for excellence in typography, editorials, job printing. With Depression, N.E. A. fell on evil days. Some 1,000 members defaulted their dues and pessimists saw the end in sight. Last week a new lease on N. E. A.'s life was assured when N. E. A.'s Acting Managing Director William W. Loomis, publisher of the La Grange (Ill.) Citizen, announced to 250 delegates at this year's convention in Poland Springs, Me. that necessary funds...
...knows best is the depressing series of European conferences after 1919 in which the Allied statesmen tried to evolve from the War a neat, tight, old-fashioned victory settlement with Germany. At these doomed gatherings, now being repudiated by a fresh generation of statesmen, there was no more familiar sight than the large red beard of the amiable British Bohemian, George Slocombe. Twice, he claims in The Tumult & the Shouting, he personally contrived to bring about historic meetings between hostile statesmen: 1) at Geneva in 1927, between Russia's Litvinoff and Britain's Austen Chamberlain...