Word: glinting
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...Tribune scoop on the details, coincided with the first meeting of a special Grand Jury investigating Chicago crime and police. Offsetting the "frame-up" theory was the fact that nine unnamed witnesses of the murder had "positively identified" Brothers as the "big wavy-haired man with a glint in his blue eye" who had shot Lingle...
...Berlin, not even in Prussia, but in Saxony, in Leipzig sits the German Supreme Court: das Reichsgericht. Justice is done beneath a mighty dome topped by a big bronze statue of Truth. Through tall casement windows Saxon sunbeams glint upon carved oak. In such a setting presiding Judge Baumgarten (except when fiddling with one of his ears) is a sight awesome as Olympian Jove. Boldly to face the justice down, to use the Supreme Court dome as a demagog's thumping tub, to hurl from dem Reichsgericht a defy which reverberated throughout Europe, such was the feat last week...
...part of the three hours by reading over his shoulder. One after another has listened to the padding of feet up and down the aisles, and started as a snort from the desk indicates that the fun of communal blue-book reading has begun, and shrunk when the cold glint in a proctor's eye shows he is wondering why you look at your watch so often. What is honor? A mere abstraction; but monitors are a perennial joy, and they must remain...
...trio had an amazing, almost incredible story to tell. Dr. Who Slung Hooey had recently been in the employ of the National Government in China, predicting the out-come, if any, of the Sino-Russo war. The glint of American gold, however, lured the great oriental prophet away from his position with the near-bankrupt Nationalist Government, and after a series of thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes the doctor and his two American companions were able to elude half of the Chinese army and all of the Chinese Navy to set sail for Manila in their tiny craft...
...Under the middle chandelier stands a stocky, pale gentleman in faultless evening attire. His bald head is a palish gray; his prominent eyeballs, framed in reddish half-closed lids, have a lustreless prismatic glint; a shapeless little poodle nose surmounts a self-indulgent mouth which prepares us for his ample waistline and the folds of flesh above his stiff collar. He stands alone because the cercle round him has formed at a respectful distance. Now ... [a sycophant] advances with a deep obeisance, shakes the great man's hand . . . and then withdraws backward, wriggling his rump with fawning rapture. . . . Vivat...