Word: squinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he was 40, Henry M. Blackmer had developed the habit of getting richer every year. He parted his hair in the middle, wore pince-nez, had a dignified squint in his right eye and cheerfully endured high starched collars which would have turned the blow of a Malay's kris. And he enjoyed spending money almost as much as stuffing it away in bank vaults...
Singing Canary. Squint and Cockeye made a good pair. Together, they slugged and killed their way up until both were minor officers in the union. In 1947, in company with a third hoodlum named Danny Gentile, Squint and Cockeye murdered a waterfront hiring boss. The killers were careless and the victim lived long enough to identify them...
Last week, in the condemned row at Sing Sing, Squint Sheridan and Cockeye Dunn were ready to die. Danny Gentile had turned "canary" at the last minute, singing out his knowledge of New York's crime-ridden waterfront (TIME, March 7) to win life imprisonment instead of the chair. Cockeye Dunn's family wanted him to sing, too, but he refused. As for Sheridan, who had tried in court to take all the blame for the murder and had even testified that killing was "just like ordering a cup of coffee," there was never any thought of squealing...
...warden's office," said Sheridan. "Have him tell my wife and daughter not to come back, that no more visitors will be admitted . . . When I last saw them they were smiling and I was smiling. That's the way I wanted it to be. No weeping stuff." Squint had one more request: he wanted his eyes given to New York's Eye-Bank (doctors said the corneas could still be used despite the damage caused by the caustic 41 years...
Fluttering Moth. At Sing Sing, the weakest always goes first at a multiple execution, so frail, runty little Cockeye Dunn preceded Squint to the chair. Guards had just wheeled Cockeye's body into the adjoining autopsy room when Squint entered at 11:08 p.m. He looked calmly at the big oak chair with its eight black harness-leather straps, eased his fat hulk...