Word: blink
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia. The effect of Philadelphia's bootleg investigation had to be considered (TIME, Sept. 17 et seq.). In that citadel of Vare Republicanism the Volstead act carried all its ghostly, malevolent outriders. Flagrant police corruption had been exposed. Suspects in higher positions has ceased to wink, begun to blink. The Vare regime was receiving unwelcome, unpleasant publicity...
...lighthouse wherein people were frequently murdered. On discovering a painter in the lighthouse, Mr. Dempsey tells Mr. Kelly to find the painter's pallet. Whereupon Mr. Kelly tells the painter to open his mouth, but it is Mr. Dempsey who announces that all painters have weasels. Then lights blink, doors swing, screams are screamed-and people appear, one by one, a shaggy seadog with a hook for a hand, a chirping grandmother, a hail-girl-well-met, etc., etc. They are all looking for a fellow surnamed The Octopus who hangs humans by the feet when he hears...
...sometimes happens that one cat will sift through the cordon of stagehands to blink before footlights. When stage hands permit two cats to go astray in such embarrassment, the audience may well consider the production a casual...
Subscriber Smith's point is well taken, but how to blink the fact that Elmer Gantry is of "outstanding interest for TIME readers," which is what THE CREAM seeks to include together with first-rate and consequential books? From the newsmagazine viewpoint events are "good" in proportion, not to their moral or aesthetic content, but their prominence in the contemporary scene...
Gotham Silk Hosiery - bright needles, madly darting, blink at silk threads; tubes of stockings come out of machines-profits...