Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Businessmen have turned the other cheek so many times, that they are now out of cheeks to turn...
...POLICY OF NEUTRALITY WILL PREVENT NAZIS OCCUPYING IT WHEN AND IF POSSIBLE HE HAS QUICKLY FORGOTTEN DENMARK, NORWAY, HOLLAND, BELGIUM. CERTAINLY GERMANY WOULD NOT BE JUSTIFIED IN DEMANDING IRISH PORTS ON GROUND OF USEFULNESS BUT WHEN HAS GERMANY EVER FELT NEED FOR JUSTIFYING HER GRABS EXCEPT WITH TONGUE IN CHEEK? . . . SHE TAKES WHAT SHE WANTS WITH NO INTENTION OF RETURNING THE LOOT IF SHE IS VICTOR WHEN HOSTILITIES CEASE. IRELAND WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR FROM BRITAIN IN LIKE CIRCUMSTANCES, AS MR. BRENNAN AND HIS GOVERNMENT WELL KNOW. . . . IF AS RESULT OF IRELAND'S STAND BRITAIN IS OVERCOME...
...musical is still the medium where Producer Zanuck is most at home. Although he dropped his sparkling early tongue-in-cheek technique (Thanks a Million) in favor of opulence, he still knows how to keep the good songs ringing clear...
Most theatrical of U. S. gallery showmen is the Baltimore Museum's dark-haired, homely Leslie Cheek, who putters around in a paint-spattered sweat shirt thinking up ways to startle Baltimoreans into appreciating art. Last week more than 1,000 expectant people crowded the museum to see Director Cheek's latest show. They were not disappointed. While a small string orchestra played Viennese waltzes and items from Gilbert & Sullivan, visitors gaped at 1) photographs and movies illustrating the history and technique of sculpture, 2) plaster casts and bronzes under blue and green spotlights, 3) in a basement...
Aside from a somewhat lavender pallor of cheek which no doctor could remove, Wescott's fresh start is clean and real. It also shows that for some young writers their expatriate decade was not wasted...