Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...title page in orange and black as handsome as the reproductions of colonial printers' masterpieces it contains. Between its red, 'white & blue covers it contains approximately 1,500 illustrations. Sometimes it seems as jumbled as a mail-order catalogue, and as absorbing. Here is the great tradition cheek by jowl with some of the curiosa of U.S. colonial history-pirates and Quakers, a print of a sea serpent ingesting a naked Indian and a meticulous working drawing of the mechanism of a waterwheel, a picture (done with Audubon violence) of a skunk killing a rooster and views...
...Vienna, to the ruins of the millennial empire whose prewar life he had affectionately reported, and to Soviet Budapest, where Béla Kun reigned and the Red Terror was on. ("I shall never forget Béla Kun as I now saw him at close quarters and cheek-by-jowl with his coterie of conspirators. . . . He had a round bulbous head and his hair was so closely shaven that he seemed to be bald; he had a short, squat nose, ugly thick lips, but undoubtedly his outstanding physical feature was his great pointed ears. Some people suggested, but under...
...bullet got Wine in the head while he was still at his gun. A 20-mm. shell laid open the skipper's cheek. The nose gunner came back to help but a bullet hit the generator and it exploded and he died in the arms of Sergeant Howard Collett. Collett got out his Bible and began to read out loud: 'God so loved the world, that He gave . . .' Then a bullet hit Collett in the stomach...
...parts of its socket, layer upon layer, until all that remains is bare bone. The book consists of five-color transparencies printed on heavy Cellophane and laid on one another in perfect register. On the top Cellophane page appears a serene brown eye, surrounded by part of a nose, cheek and forehead. Turning the page pulls the skin off. Its under side shows on the back of the page, the skinless eye appears on the page following...
Hopkins fights free-for-all, no holds barred. She kicks 'em when they're down, too. Davis--intelligent, self-denying Bette--turns the other cheek every time except one. (Anyone who is particularly interested in discovering how many times Bette muffed that one scene for the pleasure of the retakes is advised to address one of our more widely informed Hollywood experts...