Word: squint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headed, squint-eyed, friendly, Templeton is celebrated particularly for his success with weight throwers. He once studied the leg-motions of ostriches in the hope of finding out something that would improve his sprinters. Dink Templeton writes his own newspaper copy. He prepared a story soon after last week's meet in which he called McCluskey the most courageous runner he had ever seen. He also said: "His [Graber's] five points, three and four-fifths more than Bert De-Groot took with his tie for third, provided the decisive blow which killed father...
...When Charles began to roam Paris with Bohemian friends, General Aupick feared for his own careful reputation. Soon they quarreled openly and Charles went off to live by himself. In his way both a dandy and an ascetic, Baudelaire astonished even the Bohemians. His first mistress was a hideous, squint-eyed, consumptive Jewess off the streets. Then he met Jeanne Duval, a beautiful Negress, and lived with her many stormy months. His hand-to-mouth existence was complicated by laudanum, which he took to stifle intestinal pains...
Oddly enough one of Turkey's greatest statesmen thought so little of Kemal's fantastic crisis last week that he chose to be traveling in Russia. Undoubtedly the knowing men of Moscow winked at small, squint-eyed Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey; and probably behind his incredibly thick glasses he winked back...
...Manhattan, just because street renters of binoculars said so, gapers last week paid to squint at a "flagpole-sitter" atop the New York Central Office building. The "sitter" was only an ornament up there almost a year...