Word: sidelong
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Perhaps casting a sidelong doubt toward next year's schedule, Sproul went on to suggest that "you ought to find opponents in your own class. I wouldn't take on Jack Dempsey; it wouldn't be fun for anybody. Get games with institutions ethically and athletically on your own level. Play the game on your own standards, not the sportswriter...
...frequently descends to either the crudest of slapstick or aged witticisms of the "who was that lady I saw you with last night" ilk. But Hope seems to have the uncanny ability of wringing a smile of some sort out of the Himsiest of material, by means of a sidelong leer, a sucer, or a facial contortion. And it's pleasant to see Hollywood give one of its standard plot formulas a genuine kidding for a change. They insist, however, upon ending it up with the customary finale for all Bob Hope pictures, and dragging out a well-known Paramount...
Bernard Shaw having walked off with Saint Joan for the theater of his time, and perhaps of all time, Playwright Anderson prudently goes at her sidelong, writing a play within a play. He portrays actors rehearsing, on a bare stage, a play about Joan; and he laces their drama with hers by having the director (nicely played by Sam Wanamaker) and the leading lady squabble over the script's delineation of the Maid...
Renunciation. Europe and Asia, more interested than ever in what the U.S. was up to, would watch the renunciation ceremonies in Manila with sidelong intensity. In a temporary grandstand just outside the old, grey Intramuros, in a welter of tropic steam and emotion, there would be excitement which many a straw-hatted Filipino could feel to his heels...
Without even a sidelong political glance, Franklin Roosevelt nominated for Secretary of the Navy the brisk and efficient Under Secretary, James Vincent Forrestal (TIME, May 15). Not since 1941, when he elevated Harlan Fiske Stone to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was there such unanimous approval of a Presidential appointment. Press, public and the Navy cheered. The President had infused his official family with able young blood. The addition of Jimmy Forrestal, 52, lowers the average age of the Roosevelt Cabinet from 63.7 to 61.9 years...