Word: cheeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announced that it would "voluntarily" dissolve itself. Secretary General Fritz Heller tried hard to make out that the move was only a strategic withdrawal-necessary to protect party members from Communist agents, who were supposedly threatening them. (In the past, the Reds and the neo-Nazis have been cheek by jowl.) But most Germans were convinced that the SRP was trying to dodge being outlawed, would try to continue to spread its poison underground...
...this, Rose mockingly turned the other cheek. Said he: "Let's make everybody happy. I fully concede that Eleanor is the finest woman since Florence Nightingale; that Wes Bernie is a road-company Joan of Arc; that Louis Nizer, Eleanor's attorney, is president of the Sweet Fellows Club; that Alberta Jones has astigmatism, and it must have been three other people. And finally that Billy Rose has horns and hooves and ought to be ground up for hamburger...
...Keith Thompson in the June 23 issue concerning the German war prisoners of Spandau. I do not know Mr. Thompson (thank God), but I presume from his letter that he is a typical American do-gooder, or a Christian determined to out-Christian all others in turning the unslapped cheek...
...first part of Lament for Four Virgins is a tongue-in-cheek report of what happens when one defenseless minister is besieged by four determined virgins, backed up by four determined mothers. Herself the daughter of a Southern Episcopal minister, Novelist Tucker knows the social labyrinths of the South inside out, and better still, how to get them down on paper. She sketches some neat satiric passages on the relations between clergymen and vestrymen, and plots the maneuvers of her matrons with the skill of an experienced admiral arranging a fleet for battle. None of Novelist Tucker's girls...
With the next episode, called A Woman of Sin, Hecht moves more successfully from the area of theatrical cloak & dagger to cinematic tongue in cheek. A Woman of Sin is the title of a trashy novel which is turned into an Academy Award-contending movie without the studio's discovering until too late that the author of this "great story of animal love" is a precocious, pixyish nine-year-old girl. As the beribboned, towheaded authoress, Jenny Hecht takes smoothly to her father's direction. Also participating in this fancifully frothy lampoon of Hollywood: Alan Reed...