Word: gimlets
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...high desk was the other piece of office furniture. There he did most of his work, standing. When he wasn't standing he paced, slowly and deliberately-a compact man with grey-streaked hair, long, thin nose and blue gimlet eyes...
Very much alive at his exhibit was Artist Biddle, who, like his lawyer brother, is bony, fidgety and gimlet-eyed. Said he: "Ninety-nine percent of our frontline men will shoot on sight any Congressman who interferes with soldier votes, or annihilate all war-plant strike fomenters-and that means the [Montgomery Ward] Averys...
...Tobacco is Cullman's business, investing in shows merely a hobby-but it has become high finance as well because he has gimlet theatrical eyes and no Achilles' tendon. Neither stagestruck, girl-crazy, art-mad nor long-shot-minded, he backs shows simply because he thinks they will pay off. The fun lies in the fact that they can pay off at astronomical rates...
...City fathers were sure that the 10,000 soldiers, sailors, Coast Guardsmen in the area were all on the prowl.) The girls were forbidden dates, drinking, smoking, gum-chewing. They could not talk to a man "without permission." They were surrounded at all times by a massed armada of gimlet-eyed chaperons, including 20 of their mamas, and a special platoon of Atlantic City matrons, hand-picked for their motherliness. Six well-armed Atlantic City cops, on "antiwolf patrol" under Acting Sergeant Robert Silvagni, flanked the girls wherever they went...
...Vibrant, gimlet-eyed Octavio Vejar Vasquez succeeded leftist Luis Sanchez Ponton as Minister of Education. He is a conservative, close to Mexico's powerful Catholic Church. To him goes the praise, and the blame, for abolishing coeducation in Mexican schools. He also recently ordered all schoolteachers to abandon their political activity...