Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occasionally, like an aging but still truculent eagle, San Francisco's Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini feels an urge for solitude, flaps eastward to survey his Pacific Coast empire from a distance. In the past these vigils were often disturbed by the sight of an enemy and Giannini's instinct for plummeting into violent battle. But last week in Palm Beach the 75-year-old Giannini sunned his scars in peace, lazily observed the movements of lesser birds, and gazed west with a benevolent softening of his hooded eyes...
When the Germans took over. Kiki dropped out of sight. Sentimental Left Bankers typically believed a rumor that she had retired to the country and was raising a family of healthy children. But this happy ending was untrue...
...British films were eligible for the Academy Award, Laurence Olivier's production of "Henry V" would win every Oscar in sight. For that reason it is difficult to talk about it. The publicity troglodytes of Hollywood have long since exhausted the mine of superlatives in describing far inferior efforts. No press agent adjectives can do this picture justice...
...sist Street, where a new department store was going up, the owners, thoughtful of New Yorkers' idle curiosity, had put windows in the plank boardings, so the public could watch the construction job (not as commonplace a sight in the U.S. as it was a generation ago). Next door other workmen were putting a new face on St. Patrick's. Down the street, the sign on the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas said that Dr. Joseph Sizoo would preach the next Sunday on "When Dawn Comes...
Just to please Li'l Abner, Capp had Gooch come through. From "Frank Half-buck, the great explorer," he heard about "Lena, the hyena from Lower Slobbovia." Because the very sight of her turned men's spines to jelly, she had to be (so far, at least) an offstage horror. The trouble she would make only handsome, happy Al Capp, who makes more than $150,000 a year out of such antics, could tell...