Word: cheeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secret Service Chief Frank Barry, Sam Rosenman, Dave Noyes, and Irish Tenor Phil Regan. Said Truman: "In five minutes I'm going down and announce for Harriman. I want you fellows to go get this job done. I'm not doing this with my tongue in my cheek. I mean it. I want you fellows to go to work...
...title story, the honeymooners are really duelists. This is their second day on Anacapri, and poor Giacomo has got nowhere. When he asks for a kiss, he gets a peck on the cheek. Simona keeps promising better things, but it is plain that she is somehow frightened or not really in love or both. To make matters worse, she is a Communist, and Giacomo is not at all interested in politics. When they run across one of Simona's party pals, jealousy is added to discontent. That night, when the marriage is consummated, it is as though two well...
...town, where newsmen had been standing by impatiently. The President, he said, had discussed future plans, as well as "politics generally," with Hagerty and, on the telephone, with Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams. But newsmen could not squeeze a smidgen more from Hagerty. Said he, darting his tongue into his cheek: "I'm merely trying to keep you informed...
During Prohibition, the red-letter days at the American Mercury were the ones on which the bootlegger's man in the Brooks Brothers suit delivered the booze. Editor Mencken "stopped whatever work he was doing, carefully unwrapped each bottle, put it to his cheek, and smacked his lips . . . Mencken's eyes bulged and glistened, his cheeks flushed, and he would gabble and gabble, spitting tobacco juice all the while into the large brass spittoon at the side of his desk...
...physically, glib, lazy-minded, a common denominator of millions of the brains and consciences of her time." The key "crimes" of which he accuses her are 1) knowing little or nothing of the South and of how slavery operated, 2) promoting racial stereotypes, e.g., Topsy, the comical waif, faithful, cheek-turning Tom, 3) talking genetic nonsense about the "African race," 4) implying that a Negro's taste for freedom and education grow proportionately to his infusions of "white blood." With the aid of some 387 books, pamphlets and articles listed in his bibliography, Author Furnas raps the ghostly knuckles...