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...wonder whether you may have had tongue in cheek when you explained Cwthmas as "an abbreviation of 'Commonwealthmas'; the 'w' is pronounced like that in the town of Ebbw Vale." I'm lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 20, 1959 | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...Other Cheek. In Tuscaloosa, Ala., J. R. Campbell was fined $100 after he paddled the school principal who paddled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 22, 1959 | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...acidulous prime, Gossipmonger Walter Winchell stood second to no columnist for journalistic terseness, ferocity and cheek. A chronic vendettist, he repeatedly bared his teeth and his quill in Winchell feuds: against Singer Josephine Baker ("pro-Fascist, a troublemaker"). the Stork Club's Sherman Billingsley (they quarreled over a pack of cigarettes), Ed Sullivan (''style pirate"), the New York Post ("pinko-stinko sheet"), the "fourth estate" ("All those columnists rapping me-where do you think they get their material? They go through my wastebasket"), and everybody ("Look. I want to get back at a lot of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Aging Lion | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...liberal Democrats who accused him, on one hand, of one-man rule, and, on another hand, of failing to organize his sprawling majority (64-34) for an across-the-board assault on the Republican Administration's policies. Finally, last week, Johnson took his tongue out of the cheek he had been turning. "This one-man rule stuff is a myth," cried he on the Senate floor. "It does not take much courage, I may say, to make the leadership a punching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tongue Out of Cheek | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...weeks Braithwaite's students met him with indifference or open hostility. They learned little, muttered about the "bleeding cheek" of the "black bastard" when he corrected them. Couples necked openly in the halls, sullenly waited as he passed to begin again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Slum School | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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