Word: cheeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Misleading Lady (Paramount) is an old-fashioned little absurdity which gives Claudette Colbert a chance to be cunningly indignant. She wriggles, squeals, wears a smudge of charcoal on her cheek and cries, "Let me go, let me go," or "I would like to kill you!" This is because she has trifled with the affections of a morose young traveler (Edmund Lowe) just returned from sojourning with aborigines. He has paid her back by abducting her to his shooting lodge and attaching her to a leash intended for pet bears...
...following players captain the House teams: Adams, W. R. Timken '33; Dunster, D. B. Cheek '34; Eliot, R. B. Harrison '32; Kirkland, W. C. Powell '34, Leverett, J. E. Beaumont '33; Lowell, Joseph Rauh, Jr. '32; Winthrop, C. F. Montgomery...
presence of one one-trillionth of a grain of timothy, golden rod, or ragweed pollen." On this happy note, with his tongue reaching for his cheek, Professor Pitkin winds up his 540-page introduction with the words: "We are now ready to begin the history of human stupidity." He cannot be said to have left his subject where he found...
Oldest active six-day bicycle rider, McNamara boasts that he has broken his collar bone six times, all his ribs at least once, that he has 47 scars. One of them, running along his right cheek, gives his dark and friendly face a dangerous look which he enhances by wearing black sweaters and scowling. He received his first injury in Australia, where he was born in 1888. A snake bit his finger and his brother chopped it off. In most professional sports there is some character whose endurance or perverse courage has earned him the banal distinction of being called...
...been with him for 25 years, brings him tea at 3:30 every day, sees that he quits work promptly at 4:30, says he has never seen George Arliss break a monocle. Worn first as an affectation, the Arliss eyeglass, which has ribbed a groove into his right cheek, has long since been more than an optical necessity, more than a symbol of a political and social heritage, like the monocle of Sir Austen Chamberlain (TIME, Feb. 15). It is a trademark, a talisman, the badge of an intelligence which views humanity with graceful hauteur and interprets it with...