Word: squinting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...absolute sense of spiritual well-being that Eustace had coveted all his life now enveloped him." Unfortunately, Novel No. 3, Eustace and Hilda, does not carry the pair farther into the empyrean but in the opposite direction. Hilda ends up jilted, a psychological wreck with "a slight squint, a drooping eyelid," while Eustace turns into a dead shrimp deprived of the loving tentacles of his anemone...
This season the portly (229 lbs.), shaggy droll with the twinkling squint has hurdled the gulf from Omnibus to The $64,000 Challenge, popped up on What's My Line?, The Last Word, and six memorable sessions of the Jack Paar Show. Last week, in his second Omnibus show, he won hosannas for directing and starring in a televersion of his own satiric tragedy, Moment of Truth, playing a Petain-like elder statesman with overtones of King Lear...
...onto a plane. By the time they landed in Detroit, both travelers were convinced that Edelman had something on the ball. Don enjoyed the trip so thoroughly that he even entertained the notion of continuing the joy ride all the way to Los Angeles. Hypnotist Edelman took a squint at the future and had no doubts at all about what he saw. Said he: "The autoconditioning I taught Don will be conducive to better pitching and improved reactions to the various circumstances that arise on the ball field...
...time I had more or less adjusted myself to the life about me, it broke in on me that Ireland had not adjusted herself in the least little bit. Irishmen in general were still thinking about themselves, or rather, in their usual way, double thinking or squint thinking about themselves, in terms of dawns, and ands, and buts, and onwards, and dew, and dusk, while at the same time making a lot of good hard cash to the evocative vocabulary of traffic, tax, protection, quota, levy, duties, or subsidies while compiling a third and wholly different literary style (pious, holy...
...nicely. The scene in which, as a demonstration of technique, the eccentric old Laird and a sledge hammer wind each other up and hurl themselves into space is exquisite. The Laird becomes a most amusing exaggeration of a country squire with the overplaying of Alastair Sim, who can squint, fidget, grimace, say nothing at great length, and provoke laughter as well as any British character alive. The large Wee Geordie is played by Bill Travers, who in such a "natural man" role, does not have much positive acting to do, yet does it well...