Word: eyelids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were hearty handshakes, clammy as trout, warm as buns. Old friends wandered among the exhibits, admired the ultimate mode in funeral shoes, the suavest cuts in cemetery suitings, the 1926 coffins. They strolled off to dinner, exchanging views on the smoothing of an eyelid, the powdering of a nose, the arrangement of hands and what is the finest angle for a head...
...reserves which the Government is trying to retrieve (TIME, Nov. 3, 24) from Mr. Doheny contain probably as much as 200,000,000 barrels of oil. And it is just possible that the lawyers are right in their fear that so much as the winking of an official eyelid at the tanks would fatally prejudice their suit to recover...
...commonly expected of a good wife and a better politician. Among other things, the volume contains the following dialogue: Margot (ingratiatingly): "You are a greater man than Lloyd George or Winston Churchill." Benito Mussolini (swelling and smiling): "And who then is greater than I?" Margot (batting not an eyelid): "My husband...
...over, the Prince, "who is descended from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba," drove with the President through the gay streets of Paris. Parisiens are accustomed to having their plaudits acknowledged by even the most autocratic of rulers, but Ras and his gorgeously clad Marshals "batted not an eyelid" which quite intrigued the people and caused them to "vive" him more than ever. While in Paris the Prince occupied the royal suite at the Quai d'Orsay; the Marshals-Ras Hailov, Viceroy Godjam, Ras Seyoum, Ras Nado and Governor Ilubador-were housed elsewhere...