Word: cheeking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reverberated that night with the more melodious, even louder tones of such old-time favorites as Mendelssohn's "On Wings of Song," Bohm's "Calm as the Night," Elgar's "Land of Hope and Glory." Reinald Werrenrath soloed "Danny Deever" until tears rolled down many a cheek. Then he sang "On the Road to Mandalay," assisted in the chorus by all the 4,000 and most of the audience...
Instead, he: 1) Spent his first night away from the White House in a tent; 2) Got a twig-whack on the left cheek, just below the eye which made a mark; 3) Attended a Baptist Sunday School meeting at Sperryville; 4) Had his automobile pulled out of a Virginia mudhole by a state-maintained team of mules...
They saw the President's twig-whacked cheek, waited for him to explain. But President Hoover had more important things to tell about than twig-whacks. With his callers he talked of German reparations-a reduction of U. S. claims as a sacrifice. The conferees gravely nodded their heads, agreed to a modification of U. S. policy. Senator Borah left 15 minutes before the rest. All departed, holding their tongues, wondering if it were too late to keep dinner engagements...
...kodaking the koodoo in Africa, to drop-tag as a pleasing sport for the flyer, and to the fact that while you cannot afford to buy a race-horse, the Aga Khan. The pictures are better than the text, but of what sporting paper, is this not true? Leslie Cheek '31 supplies an uproarious cover, and the whole staff has been busy making composographs and very good composographs they have turned out to be. There is something bold and fine in the conception of a pair of apteryxes defying gunners on the top of the chimneys of the Cambridge...
...Soviet Union. When he first went to Geneva (TIME, Dec. 5, 1927) he said that Soviet Russia was ready to completely disarm within one year, if all other nations would do likewise. Since then, plump, indefatigable Comrade Litvinov, who looks like a squirrel with a nut in either cheek, has been slowly learning that whatever plan he may offer will be pigeonholed, at least for some time to come...