Word: cheeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...escaped the fury of the French Revolution only because he was a citizen of out-of-the-way Grenoble. There Henri was born in 1783, and naturally grew up as a republican, to pique his father. He was difficult, even as a child. When told to kiss the plump cheek of a grown-up female relative, he bit it. His mother's death, when he was 5, plunged him into despair and atheism. His only childhood friend was his grandfather's valet, who was killed by falling from a mulberry tree. At school Henri won a prize...
...ignorance awakening to find the house in flames. One feels like shouting in impish glee, "Jump, jump, we've got a blanket." But of course it is too late and the venerable figure must struggle through the flames, in the extreme likelihood of having his whiskers singed to the cheek...
Curtis Arnoux Peters ("Peter Arno"), famed caricaturist for The New Yorker (weekly smartchart), quarreled bitterly in the middle of the night with his wife Lois Long ("lipstick"), colyumist for The New Yorker ("tables for two"). They told the police that a deep cut in his cheek was a slip-of-the-razor, not caused by her hurling a glass powder-box at him. Calming down, they decided to separate for one year...
...remaining two acts continue with a fair share of morality and wit, punctuated with several undeniable hints that Mr. Shaw could be quite sentimental if he could take his tongue out of his cheek long enough. But that would not be playing the part he has set aside for himself in all of his plays. So, in this play he ends with his usual quirk. There is a discourse on the evils of middle class morality, the verbose Doolittle is led to the noose of matrimony, Higgins returns to his phonetics, and Eliza remains a "good" girl...