Word: cheeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity crushed Middlebury 68 to 0, the largest score since 1891. Halfback Crosby was one of the heroes, as he scored four times. But next week, Captain Marion Cheek was out of the lineup and the varsity lost to Holy Cross 7 to 6. Saltonstall, the star end, injured his hip. Early reports had him out for a month, but the three-sport athlete would play no more football that season...
After the season a tremendous controversy started over de-emphasis. The Debate Council scheduled a giant meeting where Captain Cheek was to attack football emphasis. But when the debate was opened to include outsiders--Bill Cunningham of the Boston Post and Frank "Iron Man" Cavanaugh, Boston College coach--Cheek withdrew. The CRIMSON ran an editorial calling for deemphasis, and at the debate Cavanaugh bitterly attacked the Crimeds, adding that anyone at Dartmouth who suggested that football was overemphasized would be shot at dawn. Cunningham added that "strangely enough, you seldom hear the attack launched by football men. The rabid reformers...
...become your liege man of life and limb, and of earthly worship: and faith and truth I will bear unto you, to live and die against all manner of folks. So help me God." The Duke touched his sovereign's Crown, kissed his wife on the left cheek, then descended the five steps of the dais to his place on the left of the altar...
...doughty champion from each of the five degrees of peerage (dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts and barons) followed in Philip's footsteps. Philip and the Dukes of Gloucester and Kent alone kissed Her Majesty's cheek. As each peer pledged his fealty, the members of his ancient order repeated, phrase by phrase, his oath of liegemanship. When it was done, the acclaim roared out once more...
When they arrive, Sophie says, "How picturesque." Teresa adds, "And dirty. "Author Godden, tongue conspicuously in cheek, works every comic possibility in the confrontation of sentimental Sophie and the Kashmir peasants. When Sophie offers to give her servants a day off, they ask in astonishment, "But-for what?" and one of them adds crushingly, "Holidays should come from God." The whole social structure of the village is upset by Sophie's munificence, for though she considers herself poverty stricken, they are overwhelmed by her riches. Soon the situation turns ugly: she finds ground glass and belladonna in her food...