Word: cheeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letters were black-edged; many writers held tongue firmly in cheek. Someone sent in a printed circular which broadly hinted that Harvard students needed more meat to prevent rheumatic fever...
...resting on a practice-room floor. He began to stretch and ripple his muscles, then caught sight of himself in an imaginary mirror and went into a self-admiring performance. Ballerina Tanaquil LeClercq entered, joined in the mirror work. Eventually Faun Moncion turned and kissed Nymph LeClercq on the cheek. As if jolted by seeing each other as real people rather than mirror images, faun and nymph broke apart. She glided away, and he lay down for another rest as the curtain fell...
...piropo used to be one of the pleasantest professions of Latin America, and nowhere was it practiced more artistically than in Maracaibo, a city rich with oil and romance. A proper piropo, while flowery and fresh, was never offensive, e.g.: "Ah, to be the hand which powders that cheek!" But the worldwide lapse of good manners in the 20th century made the piropo bolder: "Say, baby, I'll be a citizen of your republic if you'll guarantee a direct vote...
Maud Gonne wore widow's weeds for MacBride, but also for Ireland. She did not agree with Eamon de Valera's government. She wrote her memoirs, and was outraged when Communist organizers came to Ireland in 1930 and "one young puppy had the cheek to tell me they had come to teach us how to fight." Bedridden but still a political force, she backed her son, Sean MacBride, and his Republican Party in a successful campaign against De Valera in 1948, but when she went to the polls, one who saw her cried: "That woman is exactly like...
...gave both his name and a twist on his name to the style of cheek-whiskers he affected: burnsides and sideburns...