Word: winking
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...wants above everything to prevent the great powers from intervening in her bailiwick. Again appropriate last week was a famed cartoon, the Magnum Opus of Shanghai's North China Daily Herald. It shows a bespectacled bird which greatly resembles Prince Chichibu of Japan perching with a wink above the apple of Japanese eyes, Manchuria...
These men will debate with the Radcliffe speakers on a split team basis, two speakers from each school forming each team. J. G. Gilbert '33 and J. R. Wink '33 were selected as alternates...
Smith Halls: H. L. Anderson, F. D. Clark, Demorest Davenport, R. E. Eaton, M. C. Kirkbride, E. E. Mitchell, Albert Pratt, J. R. Wink, Andrew Yeomans...
...elaborate efforts of his backers to establish him as ferocious, Victorio Mario Campolo, Argentine, stuck his thumb into the eye of English heavyweight Phil Scott in Manhattan. Until then Scott had been winning. Closing his hurt eye, he asked the referee to disqualify Campolo but the latter, misunderstanding his wink, told him indignantly to go on. Through that round, which was the ninth, and one more, Scott continued pushing and shoving sleepy Campolo, effectively enough to win the decision. He must now be considered a rival of Schmeling, Sharkey...
...Austen Chamberlain, lately Conservative Foreign Secretary. Upon receipt of the Henderson telegram, Baron Lloyd had hastened to London. Mr. Henderson said last week that after a "friendly talk" they had agreed that the resignation should be tendered and accepted. "All went well," concluded the Foreign Secretary with a wink which the House did not miss, "all went well until his Lordship had an interview with the former Chancellor of the Exchequer...