Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...production has the ring of authenticity, the small details having been apparently well taken care of. Quite evident is the fact that the picture has been produced under the new "spotless" regime, there being nary a line that could bring even a blush to your grandmother's cheek. The nearest approach is by Mercedes (Elissa Landt) who, when in the course of a discussion of Dante's qualifications for marriage it was remarked that he "had no family", coyly retorted that she "would give...
...Satirist Lardner had his tongue in his cheek, he may also have been aware of the finding of psychologists that the words commonly thought to be ugly-sounding are so considered, consciously or unconsciously, because of unpleasant associations and not because of phonetical harshness. Scholars recognize a few words as truly onomatopoeic; e.g., tinkle, plash, squawk. But in the vast majority of cases the reaction of a hearer is determined by meaning, not by combinations of vowels and consonants...
Most distasteful to Italy's Cupid was a grave irregularity last week at Avellino. Rosino Consolazio, 19, agreed with her fiance Montalberti Filcorate, 23, to end their engagement in a duel. On the field of honor she shot him through the head, received a flesh wound in the cheek...
...eventually unavoidable write-off were ever compounded than this tale of Capital on strike. Sabotage may have sped the demise, but it was a slower poison which made the case of Hopewell hopeless. See if you can find a rayon chemist who will take his tongue out of his cheek and deny...
Faced with political ruin if they shouldered the responsibility of forcing Gaston Doumergue out, Mm. Tardieu and Herriot muttered a temporary grudging "Quits." Premier Doumergue kissed them both on the cheek and his Cabinet seemed safe until a vengeful party congress of Radical Socialists meets in October...