Word: winking
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...truce period, business would be brisk. Floor Waiter Georgiu was intrigued by Bernadotte's request that half of the rooms reserved should be in one wing of the hotel, half in the other, as far apart as possible. "There are separate staircases too," said Georgiu with a knowing wink, "which may be convenient...
...where else in the world's wide mile Were ever this piling wink of lights...
...with a smash Hooperating (67.2). There were a few missing ingredients (the color and smells), but the long-distance lens caught such unusual details as a close-up of Unus' one-fingered stand, the dazed expression on a midget bareback rider's face, an elephant's wink...
Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who fined Lewis and his miners $3,510,000 for contempt of court 17 months ago,* gave him short shrift. Said the judge: "If a nod or a wink or a code was used in place of the word, 'strike,' there was just as much a strike called as if the word 'strike' had been used ... As long as a union is functioning as a union it must be held responsible for the mass action of its members." Judge Goldsborough held that Lewis was guilty of civil and criminal contempt...
...this might remain just an intricate, private, directorial joke, except that Clair gives the show away with a colossal wink: the principals are engaged in making 1906 movies, and Clair's camera inspects some prime ribs of primitive cinemacting with all the grave astonishment of a visitor from another planet...