Word: cheeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...homage after a hellish day in the House (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Her admirers: Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn and Republican sometime Speaker Joe Martin, successors to the gavel of Tallulah's daddy, the late Democratic Speaker (1936-40) William B. Bankhead. After pecking each gentleman smudgily on the cheek, she primly explained: "I can't compromise them. They're both bachelors...
...year-old retired cotton mill hand developed a cancerous lesion on his cheek. He went to a healer, after twelve monthly visits ($5 each) still had the lesion plus a new scar covering his cheek and forehead. At Duke the cancer was successfully treated...
...skating champion, now a shrewd ice-show promoter, tossed a $15,000 circus costume party at Giro's nightclub in Hollywood, one of her 200 guests, who had wowed the gala by coming as himself in lace cuffs, squired Hostess Henie to another nightspot. There Sonja posed cozily, cheek to cheek, with her escort, Schmalz Pianist Liberace, still himself in the exotic resplendence of a nubbed-silk dinner jacket and polka-dot shirt...
...cousin but no partisan of the hero. Lawrence's part in the Arabian revolt, wrote Vansittart, "was not titanic, but it was considerable. Mr. Aldington cannot reconcile-nor did Lawrence himself-faults and gifts, purple and dust, Dichtung und Wahrheit, bravery and inaccuracy, daring and brusquerie, delicacy and cheek...
Last week, black Havana jutting from scarred cheek, Adolf Galland was home, the No. 1 candidate for commander of the soon-to-be 80,000-man West German air force. He landed in Frankfurt after six years' absence, cried: "I am happy to be back," and promptly denied the headlines about his new post. But the tall, slim airman, now 43, talked suspiciously like a commanding officer: "The new German air force will not be built around World War II flyers, who are now too old. It will be built around youth. It's now become a necessary...