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...poor Czech goldsmith, Kokoschka once made a living decorating fans. He has spent the major part of his life in opposition to the painstaking and delicacy required for goldsmithing and fan-painting; to him emotion is all. Kokoschka early learned to squint at the world through thick, hot lenses of feeling and to say what he saw in fat, turbulent strokes of brilliant color. Hitler called him the most degenerate painter; the free world found him an apostle of artistic freedom. No modern artist except Picasso (whom he affects to despise) has staged more lavishly dramatic impromptus on canvas. Kokoschka...
...Long Ball. There is little danger of Mike's collapsing. He has the crowd-proof calm of a winner. Once he is on the tee, his green eyes settle into a squint, his rugged shoulders swivel through a couple of practice swings; then he steps up to belt the ball a country mile. Lately he has been trying so hard to substitute control for power that his drives sometimes roll out to a mere 300 yards. A perfectionist with his irons, Mike is one of those rare types, a long-ball hitter who can also handle approaches and putts...
...Collector Freer (who died in 1919) had a hawk eye for Oriental art, his eye for American painting suffered a Victorian squint. Today Freer officials blush a bit at the gallery's American collection and turn purple when forced to admit that the public favorite at the Freer is Abbott Thayer's Virgin (opposite...
...looked older. He cruised in a black and green fishing boat off the coast of Cuba, near where the Gulf Stream draws a dark line on the seascape. The grey-white hair escaping from beneath a visored cap was unkempt, and the Caribbean glare induced a sea-squint in his brown, curious eyes set behind steel-rimmed spectacles. Most of his ruddy face was retired behind a clipped, white, patriarchal beard that gave him a bristled, Neptunian look. His leg muscles could have been halves of a split 16-lb. shot, welded there by years of tramping in Michigan, skiing...
...teams, the best (for the last three seasons) is the Detroit Lions. And the best of all the Lions, the best quarterback in the world, is Robert Lawrence Layne, a blond, bandy-legged Texan with a prairie squint in his narrow blue eyes and an unathletic paunch puffing out his ample frame (6 ft. 1 in., 195 Ibs.). Layne, a T-formation specialist, led the Lions out of the National Football League's cellar, called the plays and fired the passes that won them the national championship in 1952 and 1953. He is currently doing his bruising best...