Word: winking
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...amateur definition is strict, and there is a disposition both in England and America to wink less at the evasion of the rule. Very few of the socalled amateur oarsmen who are prominent can put their hands upon their breasts and testify that this clause does not apply to them: "Whose membership of any rowing or other athletic club was bot brought about, or does not continue, because of any mutual agreement or understanding, expressed or implied, whereby his becoming or continuing a member of such club would be of any pecuniary benefit to him whatever, direct or indirect." When...
They are taking photographs in Paris that actually wink. This leads to the hope that they will eventually produce them in such a manner that they will go out in an emergency and borrow five dollars...
...restaurant than what would be deemed quite fourth-rate in New York. Moreover, the poor food induces, in the words of Cambridge's poet, "restless, unsatisfied longing," which is too apt to be satisfied at the numerous drug stores, at which mysterious and exhilarating medicines are obtained at the wink of the initiated...
...professor won't wink...
...contempt upon me, and walked away, my sense of relief gave way to that of despair. I knew not what to make of it, and when in the evening she went off with the Yale man, my feelings were the quintessence of wretchedness. That night I hardly slept a wink, and my chum declared afterward that I thrashed and groaned as if it was Semi-annual time. I felt that I must have said or done some horrible thing when I was seasick, and I wanted to go down on my knees for forgiveness. All through the morning...