Word: winking
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Japanese House of Peers. President of the Japanese Red Cross, scion of ancestors who ruled Japan as Shoguns or Tycoons while the power of the Imperial House was in abeyance (1603-1868). "What are breadlines?" "He doesn't know what breadlines are!" exclaimed the questioner with a wink for his fellows. "Why sure, you know Prince, breadlines are a lot of poor guys standing in line to get a handout-breadlines, see?" "We have had nothing like a breadline in Japan that I have ever heard of," said Prince Tokugawa firmly. "That is, we had had nothing...
...press gloated. The tabloid New York Daily News screamed: MABEL WINS WINK FROM U. S. ON WINE! Explanation: Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition and good friend of Director Woodcock, is counsel for Fruit Industries, Inc. Fruit Industries Inc. is an affiliate of the California Grape Control Board whose members were, at the moment when Director Woodcock spoke, harvesting a bumper grape crop of 870,000 tons, representing an investment of some $300,000,000. Of this crop 450,000 tons, enough to make 67,000,000 gal. of juice, were wine grapes...
...Georges '31, D. D. Lloyd '31, A. G. Malkan '33, R. S. Fitzgerald '33, S. D. Pollard '32, G. F. Oest '33, A. J. Pehrkon '32, P. C. Reardon '32, J. H. Ruskin '33, Leo Grole '33, D. M. Sullivan '33, J. C. Swift '32, J. R. Wink '33, J. R. Wolf '32, G. E. Lodgen '32, R. M. Alt '32, A. B. Rood '31, Henry Friend '31, A. P. Levack '32, M. J. Cohen '32, R. R. Daly '32, E. M. Holden '33, Samuel Kunen...
...estimated that over $5,000,000 was spent in Boston during the convention. That business should therefore wink at the truth is-natural. But it is a peculiar twist of public morality which leads the mayors of Boston and Cambridge to hasten to express indignation at honest and justified criticism, when their criticism could have been so much more effective had it been directed against the conditions surrounding the Legion Convention itself. A little intellectual honesty and straight thinking in public would be distinct assets to nearly all of our officials...
With something more than a sly wink at Colyumist Calvin Coolidge (TIME, June 30) the New York Evening Graphic, sexy Bernarr Macfadden tabloid, last week began a daily feature by wisecracking Nightclub Hostess Mary Louise Cecilia ("Texas") Guinan.- Headed "Texas Guinan Says" the article is typographically arranged much like "Calvin Coolidge Says" which serious newspapers buy from McClure Newspaper Syndicate. First half-dozen articles were typically in the heavy-handed Guinan manner, supporting her insistence that she was writing every word, employing no "ghost." Excerpts: "Well, Cal, they've got me doing it now. . . . We can work together...