Word: cheek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know that every time (now this is important) the Redskins score a touchdown . . . George [Marshall] and his wife, the former Corinne Griffith, stand up ... and he kisses her on the cheek...
...York, churns her own butter, smiles at strange men and strikes a note of innocence and simplicity in the empty, superficial lives of her aforementioned loves. Although Miss Gaynor takes her mission a little too seriously and detracts from what was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek farce, the film is thoroughly enjoyable. Very nearly as good is "Time Out For Murder," in which a reporter (Michael Whalen) solves an involved but ingenious murder. Chick Chandler, as Mr. Whalen's photographer and constant companion, contributes excellent humor throughout, and Gloria Stuart, as a beautiful bill collector turned detective, gives...
Unless Correspondent Anderson's "defense program"* (TIME, Oct., 10) was a tongue-in-cheek stunt it is high time he was taught that all Cornellians worthy of the name are accustomed to follow an inadvertent brrp with apologies, not an announcement of the Alma Mater...
...through the arch formed by the cheek bone and the temporal bone (at the side of the skull), pushed the upper end of the jaw forward with a small steel bar, and wedged a block of cartilage, which he had cut from the ribs, in front of the ear. The block served as an extension of the jaw bone, soon grew firm and strong, advanced the lower jaw four-fifths of an inch (see cut). The new position of the jaw naturally changed the bite of the patient, but it did not take him long to get used...
...catch a "hog on ice" and they will have no need of book-lore to explain the expression. Deferentially and apologetically to Reader Hooper; the expression in the hinterlands is not "pert as a barn rat," but applies to sundry persons who are described as having "the cheek of a privy rat." The bucolic rhythm beats only in the backwoods...