Word: squinting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Collector Freer (who died in 1919) had a hawk eye for Oriental art, his eye for American painting suffered a Victorian squint. Today Freer officials blush a bit at the gallery's American collection and turn purple when forced to admit that the public favorite at the Freer is Abbott Thayer's Virgin (opposite...
...looked older. He cruised in a black and green fishing boat off the coast of Cuba, near where the Gulf Stream draws a dark line on the seascape. The grey-white hair escaping from beneath a visored cap was unkempt, and the Caribbean glare induced a sea-squint in his brown, curious eyes set behind steel-rimmed spectacles. Most of his ruddy face was retired behind a clipped, white, patriarchal beard that gave him a bristled, Neptunian look. His leg muscles could have been halves of a split 16-lb. shot, welded there by years of tramping in Michigan, skiing...
...teams, the best (for the last three seasons) is the Detroit Lions. And the best of all the Lions, the best quarterback in the world, is Robert Lawrence Layne, a blond, bandy-legged Texan with a prairie squint in his narrow blue eyes and an unathletic paunch puffing out his ample frame (6 ft. 1 in., 195 Ibs.). Layne, a T-formation specialist, led the Lions out of the National Football League's cellar, called the plays and fired the passes that won them the national championship in 1952 and 1953. He is currently doing his bruising best...
...short, Miami Story is just another gangstereotype-with one modern improvement. Mobster Flagg, a little Caesar who has abdicated in favor of law & order, gets evidence against his old friends with the latest thing in eavesdropping. Not content with keyhole-squint and transom-peer, with tape recorder or even wiretap. Flagg triumphantly secretes in the walls of the villain's office a complete closed-channel television transmitter...
...theater where a visitor can find delight and entertainment," had done everything possible to make the galleries a refreshing place in which to wander and look. In the larger galleries, unobtrusive labels over each painting gave the name of the artist, so that it was no longer necessary to squint closely at a picture to see who did it. Conveniently placed in the chronological order of the galleries was a windowed nook. There gallerygoers may rest on comfortable couches, smoke and contemplate either Central Park and the Manhattan skyline outside or a masterpiece like Rodin's Eternal Springtime inside...