Word: gimlet
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...Gimlet Eye," the "Fighting Hell-Devil Marine," returned as Brigadier General last week to Tientsin, a city which he left just 27 years ago this month as a young Leatherneck Lieutenant, eager to do hand-to-hand battle with the slant-eyed "Boxers" who then held the Occidental quarter at Peking under murderous siege...
...with its work. To describe the handicaps it was working under with inadequate buildings and endowment, it quoted a most Lincolnian remark addressed to it by its good friend, Publisher Adolph S. Ochs of the New York Times. Mr. Ochs had said: "You are boring with a gimlet when you should be using an augur...
...newspapers long since assumed the robes of justice. For years the protagonists in sensational trials have been obliged to undergo scrutiny by a row, and lately a galleryful, of gimlet-eyed reporters, swift to pounce upon every crumb of speech or gesture; brusque, oily or slyly intrusive with their cameras at the courthouse door...
Wrathful, gimlet-eyed, the warden rose in his might, furiously waved a prison menu,* sent down word they need expect no leniency, added that they would "find the mules pretty tough eating; and, anyhow, it is cheaper to buy more mules than to feed the mutineers...
...iconoclast's hammer waves high 'gainst the stern and rock-bound wall." - Gimlet...