Word: winking
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Only that morning Pilsudski had flayed the Witos Government in an interview printed by the Warsaw press. Grimly he reflected that he was still the idol of the Polish army, that most Polish soldiers subscribe to the famed remark of a nameless private: "Our Pilsudski has only to wink his eye and we will all commit anything from treason to suicide, according to his orders...
...know that I exactly understand what that word means, but if filibuster means to speak, or filibuster means to vote, I want to say right now that I would to GOD I had the power to stand here without eating a bite or taking a drink or sleeping a wink until 12 o'clock on the fourth day of March, 1931, if it would keep this iniquitous, infernal machine from being put on the people of America. If you call that a filibuster, then I am guilty." Sessions were begun at eleven in the morning and continued until...
...patients that your writing should not be so legible that any chemist could read it. Suppose it were urgent and none but Blank could read the writing and Blank's store was closed. You would sign a death certificate just so. A nod is as good as a wink, and this note may lead to some intelligibility...
...that is artistic without being vulgar and is the one ac- tress today who can wink without being suggestive. She has the grace that even Duse did not have...
...come to Christie's auction rooms to bid for the odds and ends that John Singer Sargent left around his studio when he died (TIME, Apr. 27). The auctioneer turned suavely to the gentlemen on the forms, nodding at a raised finger that meant 200 guineas, catching a wink that raised the bid by several hundred...