Word: squint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate meanwhile hammered the squint-eyed Frenchman who as Finance Minister under Premier Blum officially was responsible for bogging down the State's finances in such a morass that the Blum Cabinet chose with relief to resign, namely Vincent Auriol. Today he is Minister of Justice in the new Chautemps Cabinet. Last week the Senate Finance Committee's rapporteur, Abel Gardey, flayed him in a long speech which the Senate liked so well it ordered his words posted up on public billboards all over France. Senator Gardey charged that Vincent Auriol when he was Finance Minister had been...
Behind Red Lights (by Samuel Shipman & Beth Brown; Jack Curtis, producer) is a melodrama based on the mechanics of organized harlotry as illumined in the Manhattan trial of a squint-eyed vice tycoon named Charles ("Lucky'') Lucania (TIME, June 15). One character definitely not drawn from the Lucania dossier is a noble-hearted ''madam" who sheds a steady stream of sweetness & light, tries to dissuade new girls from becoming prostitutes before permitting them to do so, refuses to be coerced by the vice ring and connives with the authorities to smash it. Near...
...Jack McLean and New York's George Voigt, Cincinnati's Johnny Fischer and Omaha's Johnny Goodman, out to play their matches. While the golfers staggered around the course, the older members, having waited 28 years for a great golfing spectacle, sat down to squint instead at what Fate had substituted for it. Long Island's worst storm in years submerged the greens, made ponds out of traps, raised whitecaps on the pond hole. It drenched the handful of officials, caddies and eccentrics who followed the two matches. Finally it blew down two huge tents...
...Gallipoli. Handsome Mr. Bruce, now High Commissioner of Australia in London, was gravely wounded during the slaughter of his countrymen by the Turks. Last week he asked Dr. Aras to please be considerate about the graves of Australian War dead in excavating for Dardanelles fortifications. This the swarthy, squint-eyed little Turk politely promised, patting the stalwart, pink-cheeked Australian reassuringly on the back...
Another Detroit clue pointed to Bellaire, Ohio's $25-a-month Health Commissioner, squint-eyed Dr. William Jacob ("Dr. Billy'') Shepard as commander-in-chief. To citizens there "Dr. Billy" was a "harmless old coot." incurably hipped on the preservation of Southern chivalry. Eleven years ago he appeared at a Ku Klux Klan meeting dressed in black, attended by "Black Guards," stirred up Klan resentment. He withdrew with his Black Guards, who apparently burgeoned, without his assistance, into the Legion. Refusing to define his position, "Dr. Billy" said: "You have to have mystery in a fraternal thing...