Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your "tongue-in-cheek" profile of Fred Allen was marvelous. Tell me: What was Allen's retort...
Barefoot Boy with Cheek (book by Max Shulman; music by Sidney Lippman; lyrics by Sylvia Dee; produced by George Abbott) is another of those youthful musical frolics (Too Many Girls, Best Foot Forward) for which Producer Abbott has become famous-and a little fatiguing. This one's locale is the University of Minnesota, and its line-up includes a fraternity run like a clip joint, a lummox of a football star, a pinhead of a society student, a sourball of a professor, a strident campus Communist, and a freshman hero (Billy Redfield) who is mauled by coeds and made...
...business where wrath is an occupational privilege, Toscanini is still the tyrant of them all. Last week, rehearsing Brahms, the Maestro joyfully sang melodic passages with the orchestra in his croaky voice (which is often audible on the air)-then abruptly stopped the orchestra. He thoughtfully rubbed his right cheek, told the orchestra to try again. Then he hid his face in his hands dramatically-with a look of resigned despair-and suddenly, in a hoarse, tragic voice, ordered the brasses to modify their tone...
Frederick Gruin, TIME'S Nanking correspondent, last week put his tongue in his cheek and cabled...
...newspaper correspondent in Moscow, the trick was to write dispatches with tongue in cheek, which the Soviet censors wouldn't notice, but any U.S. reader would. The New York Times's soft-voiced, scholarly Brooks Atkinson was a master at it. Drew Middleton, his chubby, aggressive successor in Moscow, has proved equally adept...