Word: gimlet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...associa tion with a gay and amazingly unresourceful confidence man (Walter Catlett): the bravado of his return to Willow Creek are incidents which a more astute playwright might have been able to develop without recourse to such familiar props of metropolitan melodrama as a slain chorus girl, a gimlet-eyed detective on the wrong track. Linden gulps so hard throughout Big City Blues that he succeeds in swallowing his part...
...landscapes modelled out of hard candy. The man-made detail-houses, pumps, fence-palings-are mathematically meticulous. The natural detail is stylized, as in a treetop indicated by a score of leaf-shapes that look as though turned out by a cookie-mould. His people have pioneer faces, gimlet eyes, snapping turtle-mouths, long vertical furrows down their faces. lowans like Grant Wood's hard, varnished paintings of themselves. They had conscientiously bought his early pictures. Trained at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Paris Julian Academic, Grant Wood worked for 15 years under the influence of various...
Following a conference with Governor Pinchot's secretary at the Butler home in Newtown Square, "Old Gimlet Eye" let out his first war whoop...
Thus spoke President Hoover last week, leaving no doubt that he would promptly approve the request of Major General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler for retirement from the Marine Corps Oct. 1. General Butler will live in Philadelphia, is said to be planning to run for the Senate...
...point, and make room for other news besides Uncle Cocoa. Let's get out a well rounded paper . . . with all the news. . . . And listen, you pack of delightful bastards ... tie your hats on because we're all going for a fast ride." Editor Gauvreau is 39, lean, gimlet-eyed, hardboiled, literate. He walks with a limp, the result of "shellshock" suffered as a youngster when practical jokers set off a Fourth of July cannon under his bed room window. He was schooled on the ultra-conservative Hartford Courant, of which he was managing editor when he went...