Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...narrator), is definitely not the clean-cut type-at least he would hate to think so. He reads Freud and Will Durant and Walter B. Pitkin; when his girl friend tells him she has dreamed of snakes, his eyebrows almost scalp him. His mannerisms, down to the last flickering cheek-muscle, were learned at the movies; he is as full of polysyllables as a colored preacher. His girl, at the start, is Harriet Stevens, who hopes to become a concert pianist and whose mother is in the Social Register. He and Harriet "explore each other's minds," "experiment...
Once Hitler is beaten, Clayton implied, the world markets of yesteryears will return. Delegates liked the simple militancy of Clayton's stand. When he finished, ebullient, French, red-stockinged Mrs. Wallace jumped up and kissed him on the left cheek...
...Louis got ready for his next knockout by visiting a Manhattan art gallery, having his picture taken cheek-by-jowl with Sculptress%Ruth Yates's bust of the present world's heavyweight champion...
...sometimes dreams that she is herself a boy. Chief cause of her unhappiness: a domineering mother. Her mother clearly shows preference for Betty's older brother, who was good at Latin. Betty believes all her troubles will end when she has a disfiguring mole removed from her left cheek...
...book's shortest chapters, and its only bitter one, is a bullfight. The band blasts Cheek to Cheek; the stunted bull comes out, soils himself and trembles when at length he comes to "sense the purpose of his presence"; tries to escape, is tortured into the open ring and dealt loathsome, blundering wounds. Finished off with a dagger, he kneels gently like a child in prayer and his head sinks to earth. The band plays Cheek to Cheek and another little bull trots...