Word: cheeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Progressive Tongue-in-cheek note on U.S. education, as given by Editor Kingsley Martin in London's New Statesman and Nation...
...governor of South Carolina, James Byrnes, is a distinguished politician who was once an undistinguished Secretary of State and an even less distinguished Justice of the Supreme Court. He knows the temper of his state. He and South Carolina's legislature are cheek to cheek on the question of "white supremacy." They would abolish the state's public-school system rather than give up the segregation of Negroes and whites...
...mother touched the boy's cheek. "What made him do it? What made him do it?" she said in a low voice. The parents and the police followed the boy upstairs. In the surgery, a woman intern began a transfusion of blood and saline solution, slipped a tube through the boy's nose and into his stomach to sample its contents for telltale signs of blood...
...Erskine Caldwell, and the stories are at their best when Caldwell sticks to his happy flair for earthy comedy. The title piece, which deals with the courting customs of Southern Negroes, does this. So do two or three stories in which, for a change, Caldwell offers tongue-in-cheek reports on the cussedness of some Maine characters. Caldwell has less luck when he focuses on city people, and when he fumes with social indignation, the stories fall flat...
...Washington Post decided that Ghost Artists deserved an editorial. Having recently written a tongue-in-cheek piece "in defense of the ancient and much maligned trade of ghostwriting," the Post concluded that, "after some reflection, we can't see anything morally amiss about this proposal...