Word: winked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon bands of hooligans had made fists outside the British Embassy and firemen had held their hoses ready to syringe them away in case their excitement led to violence. As night fell the city's lights failed to wink on. The Vatican was blacked out too, lest its neutral and holy illumination guide airborne enemies on a raid. Inside, disheartened Pius XII knelt for an hour in his chapel in prayer. British diplomats would be evacuated by warship to Albania, thence could make their way into still neutral Greece, it was said. The Simplon-Orient Express had, of course...
Zorina of the marvelous figure can still dance, and Irene Bordoni can still wink, but next to Victor Moore, the most ingratiating performer is dark, magnetic Newcomer Carol Bruce, who knows how to put a song and herself over at the same time. Victor Moore, of course, is one of those things like Strauss waltzes and wire-haired terrier puppies that only a confirmed sourpuss could dislike. His Senator Loganberry takes rank with his Ambassador Goodhue and his Vice President Throttlebottom. A dazed, roly-poly babe-in-the-wood, he is probably surprised that he casts a reflection...
...read a murder mystery, flip cigarets into the blue Gulf waters-perhaps smile at the revival of the 1939 rumor* that he would meet heads of European Governments in midocean, there settle the world's hash. Last week he could have killed the rumor with a wink or a lifted eyebrow...