Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third was Daniel ("Danny Brooks") Gentile, a washed-up club-fighter who ran some of Dunn's bookie concessions. They got Andy Hintz coming downstairs from the third floor. Squint's gun clicked and missed. Then the Cockeye coolly pumped five slugs into Andy Hintz's cheek, chest and belly. Hintz staggered back into the apartment. "Maisie, I'm dying," he gasped at his wife. "Johnny Dunn shot me." Andy Hintz hung on to life long enough to see Dunn brought before him in the hospital and to identify him. He tried to pull...
...living have a high rate, added Cameron, because they hold the bobbin in their mouths, and get tar smudges on their lips. Fumes from tar-surfaced roads may also be a hazard. Pacific island natives who chew tar-bearing betel nuts have a high rate of cancer of the cheek...
Black-haired, dark-browed Gerard Graham Dennis seemed to have been born to live brazenly. He had a grenadier's imperious good looks, and a gentleman's taste in clothes. He liked champagne, dance music, danger and girls, especially brunettes with high cheek bones. He was endowed with intelligence and a barefaced talent for lying. He had no scruples against shooting a man, aborting a girl, or whacking an old lady over the head with a pistol butt...
Electric Theater (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS). The Damask Cheek, with Helen Hayes...
...family formula: never enter a room through a door if you can vault through the window, never pick a fight with one man if you can take on a squad. In a cheerfully outrageous tale of a Napoleonic plot to invade Ireland, Fairbanks makes his entrance with tongue in cheek. In the end, he almost swallows it to keep from laughing at his own exaggerated heroics...