Word: winking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul, Mrs. Martha Nasch swore that for seven years she had not eaten a mouthful, drunk a drop, slept a wink...
...this might seem trivial! Conservatives might wink a wise eye at that "spirit of discipline and fair play inculcated on the sporting fields of Harvard" which has so delightfully been carried overseas to grace the hitherto depraved Fatherland. The average Harvard man might feel fairly titillated by Hanfstaengl's glowing tribute to "American energy, character, and idealism." Indeed, conservative professors, if not profiteering patriots, might revel in the lovable Ernst's bid for "intellectual, scientific, and human interchange between the U.S. and Germany, without which there can be no true insight, no true understanding, no true progress...
...nose and eyes, and whose close-cropped mustache covers a firm, silent mouth. He arrives in his office on the first floor of the Treasury Building at nine each morning. Through a barred window he can look across the lawn at the White House. When the lights wink on in the President's living quarters at night, Chief Moran knows that the U. S. executive is as safe as he can possibly be. Then, and not until then. Chief Moran goes home to his wife ("the Madam") in one of the Service's big Pierce-Arrows...
...sees the spectacle of "burning cities . . . marching armies ... a funeral procession towards a red horizon." Of the four plays that opened in Manhattan last week, Playwright Lawson (Processional, Success Story) wrote two. He received congratulations only on his industry. The opening of The Pure in Heart amounted to a wink, for it closed after seven performances. Whatever Playwright Lawson had in mind when he wrote Gentlewoman is lost, like his heroine, in words, beautiful but superfluous. Its most interesting character is a lewd wench (Claudia Morgan) who seduces the hero in the second act and gives the heroine a tart...
...evasions of the spirit, if not of the letter of the law. Now we are moving into a period of administration when that which is law must be made certain and the letter and the spirit must be fulfilled. We can not tolerate actions which are clearly monopolistic, which wink at unfair trade practices, which fail to give to labor free choice of their representatives...