Word: gimlet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tiny (5 ft. 4 in.), gimlet-eyed Hinky Dink Kenna had run the roaring First Ward-the Loop and the near South Side-with grasping fingers and a cunning brain, for almost half a century. He had started his climb to power early; he was orphaned and a newsboy at twelve, two years before the Great Fire. When he was 24 he owned a saloon (with a dice game upstairs) and was edging into Democratic politics...
Pasty-faced Preacher Gudger (he had "the body of a garden slug, the soul of a gimlet, and the morals of a beagle") looked pretty Romajean up & down, blinked, licked his lips, and allowed that maybe he could arrange to oblige. So Romajean came to sing in the choir of the Primitive Pentacostal Host Church, and Gudger figured that he had added another tender ewe lamb to his flock. Preacher Gudger's flock was largely old goat and tough mutton: Old Lady Clutiebelle Tippy, Thrash Mancil, Miz Pinniz Nice, Crave Tollett and a few dozen other crackers from...
...lean, gimlet-eyed Lumsden, who had risen from the ranks, became involved in a ruinous personal disagreement with his superior officers. Winston Churchill assigned Lumsden as his liaison officer with General MacArthur in the Southwest Pacific. There Lumsden faithfully did his routine duty with a heavy heart and longed for another combat command...
...Jesse Jones, the Texas banker with the gimlet eye, and Miss Perkins, who has no more contact with realities than the wraith of an ectoplasm...
Against the massive armada commanded by the U.S.'s gimlet-eyed Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, little Shimada had thrown an inferior task force. He had planned the action so cautiously that his force did not come within hundreds of miles of Spruance's guns. But it did poke its nose within range of Spruance's naval aircraft. That was enough...