Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While it is impossible to restrain a smile at the sight of this comical little monster, one wonders how many will smile when the worm, having ravaged the fruit, will have attained the proportions of a dragon...
Most astonishing for many Chinese present, however, was the sight of one of the judges, a lean-jawed colonel who chewed and chomped a wad of gum every day. "Perhaps," wrote one Chinese reporter, "this is typical of American judicial custom." After four days of testimony and gum-chewing, the court postponed its decision. The Chinese had not quite reached a decision either...
...were led down a hazardous set of 20 slippery stairs without hand rails. The sight in the hold was like a charcoal drawing of Inferno. The brilliant sun filtered through grillwork, throwing sharp lines of light and darkness across the refugees' faces and their hot, sweaty, half-naked bodies...
...Alabama's 38-year-old Governor Jim Folsom, who stands 6 ft. 8 in. and goes in for the homespun manner, went calling on the 18-year-old daughter of California's Governor Earl Warren. The press was promptly awash in dewy anticipation. "We did a little sight-seein'," reported Folsom, a widower and father of two. "And ... we had some dinner and dancin'." Was it serious between him and Virginia? "That's a 'no comment' question, honey," said he. But he was shortly moved to an extension of remarks. "Takin...
...film may annoy those who do not thoroughly enjoy "swinging" everything in sight. It is also mildly dismaying to see that when the Muse of Dancing is really being herself, in her own ballet sequence, she can't even get up on her points. Put after all, Down to Earth is a musical, and musicals are forgiven almost anything...