Word: gimlets
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...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...
...Stonewall, Ga., milkman named H. T. Bradberry found a U.S. mail pouch containing $239,000 in currency lying beside the Atlanta & West Point Railroad tracks. He turned it over to postal authorities, who grabbed the sack, subjected him to gimlet-eyed questioning, finally told him he was free to leave-but did not utter one word of thanks...
...bald head gleaming under the photographers' lights, gimlet-eyed Benny Meyers last week heard himself declared guilty on three counts. Bleriot H. Lamarre had testified that Meyers had ordered him to lie to a Senate investigating committee about Meyers' connection with Aviation Electric Co. of Dayton, Ohio (TIME, Dec. 1). Meyers had taken $150,000 out of the company while paying Lamarre, as dummy president, a grudging $50 a week. Benny Meyers had not even offered character witnesses...