Word: winking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite-sport, you ask. That is funnay, the thing I like best to do is to go to bed. I also like to swim and ride horseback, but I do so lof to go to bed," and the youngest Velez girl bestowed a well-practised wink on her interviewer as he left to let her prepare for her next show...
...message on the bonus bill will be singularly significant. General comment from the Capitol suggests that Mr. Roosevelt will come out openly to rout those who suspect the sincerity of his vote. But politicians in favor of the bill will over be inclined to find some subtlety, some presidential wink in his speech as a sign that the printing presses are to be oiled up and the veto is to be overridden. The President will need all his candor to convince these Senators that his vote is sincere...
...loose cheek skin, anchored them at the girl's lip. Quick stitches joined the open parts of the face. Before the operation, the patient had been unable to move a muscle of the left side of her face. Two weeks later, another picture showed, the girl could wink, smile, purse her lips...
Scratch a stolid Swiss and you have scratched the most orderly of men. In Berne last week the Swiss Government decided they could no longer wink at the disorderly Nazi practice of sending German spies abroad to kidnap or murder Germans who have "opposed Hitler" (TIME, Feb. 4). The case of Berthold Jacob seemed to Swiss one kidnapping too many, and last week spunky little Switzerland made it a cause celebre. Thundered Swiss Foreign Minister Giuseppe Motta: "The Jacob affair constitutes a serious violation of Swiss sovereignty capable of shaking the destiny of Switzerland...
...kind of hoarse, high-flown preachments which used to win him cases before North Carolina jurors, some of the wise old Justices on the nation's highest bench looked displeased. Gradually they grew more tolerant of Solicitor General Bigg's performances. Latterly they have been seen to wink at one another while he was speaking. Once in the midst of an hour's oration to the court, Mr. Biggs was interrupted by Chief Justice Hughes: "Mr. Solicitor General, you have talked 45 minutes already. You had better take the next 15 minutes telling us what you want...