Word: squinting
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...life or a nickel's worth of artifice. Authors Ben Hecht and Kay Boyle are as different as slot machine and peephole. Readers who like their money's worth of entertainment will drop their nickel in Author Hecht; those who want life in the psychological raw will squint through the fence at Author Boyle's queer back yard...
...Glenn Luther Martin spent three years constructing it in his Baltimore factory from specifications laid down by Colonel Lindbergh. At the China Clipper wheel last week was a great if unspectacular pilot named Edwin C. Musick, whose eyes, after 11,000 hours in the air, have acquired a permanent squint from staring at distant horizons...
Down a back road near Freeport, Ohio, trudged a ragged, squint-eyed old man. His son was a cripple. He had sold his horse to buy bread. He now had nothing left but a dilapidated farm, a bank book showing 50,000 devaluated marks tied up in his native Germany. Into a WPAgency he trudged, gave his name as Karl Goering, shruggingly remarked that he is a cousin of peacocky No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring...
...assault on the Flegenheimer gang were plainly the outcroppings of a race war in the underworld-Italians v. Jews. Accordingly, he sent his men out to find Charles Luciana, called "Lucky" because he is one of the few men to survive a "ride." "Lucky" Luciana is a squint-eyed Latin who is supposed to run the Unione Siciliana, a society which has progressively usurped the privilege of catering to New York's night life. In their march of progress, reasoned Commissioner Valentine, the "socalled Italian gangs" had felt it necessary to wipe out the "Jewish gangs" of Messrs. Amberg...
...Catherine's greatest friends were a retired courtesan, a worn-out sea captain, and the gravedigger's daughter, who was considered hardly decent because her only dress was a sack. At the inn where peg-legged Pamploix spent his evenings the innkeeper's wife was so squint-eyed that habitues would order a drink from one end of the bar, then slink quickly to the other end, where the drink would be served. It was the great ambition of the baker's old father, a paralytic, to assert his independence by running away to the cemetery...