Word: cheeks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bodies in a Ditch. For Abraham Greenberg, a wiry, 24-year-old Polish Jew with prominent cheek bones, it had begun when he was 15 and lived in Warsaw with his mother, two sisters, a brother, his cobbler father. When the Germans came, Abraham fled to Russia. The Germans caught up with him again at Stalino, where he had found a job pushing coal cars in the mines. With 500 others, Abraham was marched away to a field outside town, ordered to stand in front of an anti-tank ditch and stripped of his clothes. He fainted, and fell...
...Months in 1949," with which U.S. admen will woo consumers this year. From "Idaho Potato & Onion Week," which growers are plugging this week, through "Woo Woo-National Sweater Week" starting Sept. 26, there will hardly be a letup. The week of April 1, said the department with tongue-in-cheek, will be known as "National Leave Us Alone Week...
Last week the New York Times's amiable Brooks Atkinson turned the other cheek. He paid to put a two-line blurb from his own review into the play's small daily ad in the Times. Before accepting it, the paper's finicky advertising department checked with Anderson, who said, "Why sure, if he wants to pay for it." Next day the Playwrights' Company happily announced: "Atkinson has initiated a welcome trend . . . [We] will welcome similar advertising contributions...
Packed in with them, cheek by jowl, are the burlesque queens, taxi-dance-hall hostesses and Coney Island athletes that Marsh finds on his favorite excursions. Coney Island, says Marsh happily, is "the only place where you can see a million people at once, spread out for you like on a table...
Wrote an awed reviewer in the New York Times, with just a tongue-tip in cheek: "We should not be surprised to hear . . . that the intellectuals had discovered Mr. Capp's opera, and that words like dichotomy, plangent and ambivalent were being thrown at him, wrapped in pages from Kafka and Dostoevski . . . The Life & Times of the Shmoo is a cultural event of enormous significance...