Word: cheek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Putting its tongue in its cheek, the same tongue it used to stick out at General Johnson, the Association of Manufacturers suggests that the reform program need be shelved only temporarily. However, it is not difficult to foresee that once reform is dropped, and prosperity returns the program will be entirely forgotten until the next economic collapse. Social legislation is a poor relation which has long been whining at the door of the United States. Following the lead of the more progressive of the European nations, the country might as well admit it into the family circle...
...stopped at the seat of Mrs. Evelyn Loether, contractor's wife. Then, according to Mrs. Loether, he "seized her in an indiscreet manner. He made an unlawful, illegal assault upon her. . . . He put his arms around her neck and forced her head against his. He kissed her left cheek, slobbered on her face." Mrs. Loether "cowered in embarrassment" and, two days later, sued for $5,000 damages. Said Comedian Durante: "Aw, it's just one of those things...
...student body from New England, and has earned a world wide reputation as a strictly New England College, there have been on its sport teams representatives of countries scattered all over the face of this big, beautiful earth of ours. Perhaps the turkey must go to Dave Cheek, an end on the 1933 football team, who came the whole length of the Road to Mandalay to enjoy the higher education that Harvard had to offer. Dave hailed from the Straits Settlements...
When in 1909 plump little Marcella Sembrich sang her farewell to opera, Manhattan's Metropolitan built her a throne on the stage, fairly swamped her with flowers, gifts, eulogies. Operagoers that bleak February night cheered themselves croupy while tears ran down many a wrinkled old cheek. But why was this great singer retiring at the peak of her career? "Because I like the sun best when it is high." Last week in Manhattan Death came to Marcella Sembrich who, save for Schumann Heink and Calvé, was the last survivor of an age which produced Patti, Lilli Lehmann, Melba...
...joust with windmills, returns home to find his books ablaze and to die. Photographed by Nicolas Farkas, who directed The Battle (TIME, Dec. 3), Don Quixote is at its best when it is purely pictorial-the brilliant whites and gloomy greys of Spain; the noble nose, the gaunt cheek, the scraggly whiskers of the Don whose addled pate wears a barber's lather-bowl which he thinks is a helmet; the whirling windmills seen from a dozen different angles after the poor Don is impaled on one of them by his own spear. Notable is the picture...