Word: cheeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith Committee adroitly dodged challenging labor's rights or employers' wrongs. With its tongue in its cheek and its eye on the record, it examined the labor relations of the experts on labor relations, asked the old Roman Juvenal's question: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" or Who will guard the "SG-&-SO" guardians...
Most Naval officers sided with the Admiral. They still had tongues in cheek when Charles Edison finally had the Navy award prizes for the best U. S. mosquito and subchaser designs (TIME, April 10), later let contracts to U. S. manufacturers for four 110-to 174-foot chasers eight 59-to 81-foot mosquitoes. Last week the Navy's Brass Hats ate crow. They conceded that: 1) their civilian Secretary was right, and 2) they now had to turn to the British for the best mosquito boats...
...spread involved dancing if has involved dancing since the days of the cotillion)." the Bulletin argues, us tongue in its cheek, "and more people would come to a dance if you called it by its spade name. All of which is precious argument. No one ever went to a spread expecting a Punch and Judy show...
...York Central, rosy with the rush of shipping business that has brought the flush of health to many a wan railroad cheek, last week announced a September net of $3,120,096, reported that fat business had cut its 1939 deficit to 90? a common share, compared with $3.32 for the first nine months of 1938. That day New York Central, a fast mover in a normally lively market, stood at 20¼. Next day it was down to 20, the following day to 19¾. Last week it closed...
...Chicago, Colosimo's murder moved Capone up. Now he was cheek by jowl with Diamond Jim's lieutenant, Johnny Torrio. The two worked well together. In four years Capone & Torrio ruled Cicero, the Chicago suburb whose name has been notorious ever since. Only disputant of their power was Dion O'Banion, on Chicago's North Side, who ran a flower shop as a sideline, specialized in floral pieces for gangster funerals, a highly lucrative trade. O'Banion said he hated Wops. One November noonday three men came to his shop, riddled him with bullets...