Word: gimlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piece of impudence," cried tall, gimlet-eyed Lord Vansittart, 68, in Britain's House of Lords last week. Bristling with rage, the onetime (1930-38) Permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign Office told his peers how the Soviet news agency Tass ("a nest of guttersnipes") had wriggled out of a libel suit filed by Vladimir Krajina, Czech refugee and onetime resistance fighter. The Soviet Embassy had declared Tass a state organ (TIME, July 11), and a British court had no choice but to grant diplomatic immunity to Tass, which had accused Krajina of being a traitor. Krajina...
Last month, burly, gimlet-eyed Joseph Dunninger, who describes himself as a "mentalist," titillated his TV audience by reading what was in the mind of Rhode Island's Congressman Aime Forand, who was standing on the steps of the Capitol, 225 miles away. (Forand was thinking: "American citizenship is priceless.") Last week, Dunninger read the mind of a Trans-ocean Air Lines pilot circling 5,000 feet above the Radio City studio. (His thought was a commercial plug for the company.) These feats, Dunninger solemnly avers, were accomplished for the entertainment of TV audiences without the use of "supernatural...
...Gimlet-eyed old Chairman Sewell Avery had no trouble at all in glowering down all opposition to his one-man rule of Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. After a couple of critics had halfheartedly denounced him at the annual meeting of stockholders in Chicago, Avery easily won re-election as a director and chairman...
There is very little plot to get in the way of the nonsense. Two-gun Cowgirl Calamity Jane (Jane Russell) is released from a jail sentence to track down some low characters who are smuggling rifles and firewater to the Indians. When three of these gimlet-eyed fellows trap her in a bath house (where she keeps her guns slung to her garters), she plugs them and larrups away with a hunt-and-peck dentist, Dr. Painless Peter Potter (Hope). She marries Painless for the sake of appearances, then gets rather fond of him. Whenever he gets...
...time of corporate, impersonal journalism, doughty old John Netherland Heiskell is a holdout. The lean and gimlet-eyed boss of Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette snorts at the notion that a newspaper is just a 6% investment: it is first of all an institution, says he, and only incidentally a business. Because his paper is a great success in both roles, numerous buyers have greedily eyed it. Heiskell has always talked to them as sternly as if they were asking for the hand of one of his two daughters...