Word: winking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...onetime U. S. Minister to Sweden, who has spent most of his life on the southern tip of Scandinavia's peninsula and hopes to die there. He said: "What President Coolidge should do in order to assure that we get the right type of citizens is to wink both eyes at the number of Swedes that come to the United States and forget the restricted immigration quotas...
General von Seeckt discovered by a tactful question that the once so exalted princess did not want her Wilhelm to enlist in the Army for twelve years, as all German soldiers must, under the terms of the Versailles Treaty. Princess Cecilia desired instead that the so gallant General should wink at the presence of her son with the Ninth Regiment during the Reichswehr's fall maneuvers (TIME, Sept. 27). Of course this could be arranged...
Cornered, the General took refuge in silence, refused to answer the princess for some weeks. He reflected that the lanky but athletic young man at whose presence he was asked to wink is, after all, the grandson and heir apparent of the erstwhile Kaiser. Princess Cecilia's son,* though he rule never as Wilhelm IV, may yet inherit the golden potency of a multimillionaire and live to reward well his friends...
...have profited from their valuations enhanced by passing years. They are financing more Russian business than banking competitors of any other nationality. They are in Egypt, Turkey, the Balkans. No one could underbid them for a recent offering of Belgian railway bonds, and, it is whispered; with a mischievous wink, at the dining tables of the Hotel Adlon in Berlin, that these German bankers have had the audacity to offer loans to both the Belgian and French governments...
...theatres. "A Loew House in Every Town," his employes proudly proclaim - and the boast is true, or very nearly. Every evening, as twilight blows westward across the continent, the light of countless theatrical facades prick out his name in lights like little yellow dollars. "Loew" they twinkle, "Loew" they wink; they seem to be calling him, and for a while Marcus Loew responded by dashing perpetually from one to another. Then, tired of Pullman cars, he bought, for a million dol lars, the Long Island palace of the late and notorious Captain De La Mar, mineral millionaire. There, with miles...