Word: winks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine. A sleek-haired, gruff-talking showoff, Bachelor Harrison drives a white Cadillac, making the rounds of New York City nightclubs "wherever romance beckons me." Manhattan-born, Harrison started out in publishing after working as a writer for movie trade papers, bringing out such magazines as Beauty Parade, Wink, Titter and Flirt...
Weatherwise, on the other hand, was a credit to the new society. Noel Coward's witty, fast-moving script was well-directed by Wink Neilson; and Barbara Bisco, Tina Cowley, Jim Rieger, Alison Mumford and Nick Strater all turned in well above average performances. Miss Mumford's transformation from a dignified British matron into a dog was the high point of the evening, and the quick exchange of patter among the members of her household never ceased to be amusing. It is fortunate that the Coward play closed the program, because it showed that the Leverett House group is capable...
...went to bed at 3:30 on Saturday afternoon to rest up, but his mind churned so with thoughts that, when he began to preach at midnight, he had not slept a wink. About a dozen of his followers were on hand for his opening words: "Men are on earth to find truth and live it out. Truth is power. Without truth man dies." Two loudspeakers atop the building picked up his words from a throat microphone and flung them into the night wind...
Chuckling, the first remarked that each campaigner had his own office, but that this was (said with a wink) "sort of mine...
...Mephisto's bumbling diabolicalness to lead a love life that seems well worth anyone's soul. He is portrayed by Gerard Philipe with just the right combination of gallantry and naivete. But it is M. Simon's performance that sets the mood for the movie; merely the lascivious wink of his eye, coming devilishly through a heavy growth of beard, seems to epitomize just what author Clair had in mind...