Word: winked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students, the instructors are marked by a vast intellectual skepticism. So is President Leigh, a, bespectacled scholar whom students like despite his impersonality. When the outside lecturers, who come to Bennington nearly every evening, occasionally turn out to be stupid or dull, President Leigh is not above accepting a wink from a bored student, winking back at the girl...
Undoubtedly the State, War, and Navy Departments foresaw some of the evidence that has been produced: that U. S. arms makers had greased the palms of foreign officials who bought their arms; that the U. S. Government was inclined to wink at such bribery as long as it was not too flagrant; that War and Navy officials had encouraged and, in some cases. may even have assisted the sale of U. S.-made arms to foreign countries. The Government's purpose in so doing was plainly to keep the life blood of profit flowing through U. S. arms factories...
...Mayor of the city," to which of course Caetani made a gracious but reserved response. Mr. Blank, greatly embarrassed, whispered in my left ear: "Say, I don't know how to talk to this 'ere European royalty." Then I spotted my friend Belts, and gave him the wink, and he approached the head table, and again addressing Caelani quite formally, I said, "Your Excellency, you remember Mr. Belts who was with you in Alaska?" The Royal Italian Ambassador. God bless him, looked up with a start and with a beautiful smile exclaimed: "Why Bob Belts, you god-damned...
HELL! SAID THE DUCHESS-Michael Arlen-Doubleday, Doran ($2). A trickster in a tricky trade. Author Dikran Kouyoumdjian (Michael Arlen) has altered the cut of his books at fashion's wink. Ladies in green hats are long passées, but duchesses are never out of style. Hell! Said the Duchess is nicely calculated to tickle the fancy of detective-story addicts, of tycoons tired of trilogies, of all persons except young children who are for the moment sick of being serious...
...rallied those friends she had obtained for his friends and, one and all, they donned false buck teeth and eyeglasses of passing ugliness. It was, of course, arranged that if the boys were such as to really hit the spot, the disguises would come off quick as a wink, but strange to say the teeth stayed in, and equally strangely, the boys left. ("You know Amherst boys," the Freshman said...