Word: forelocks
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...frowned on the custom in any form, tried to discourage il baciamano. He might as well have tried to suppress spaghetti. The Nazis also deplored the Handkuss- good Germans were meant to give the Hitler salute instead-but der Führer himself was often photographed with his forelock fanning some actress...
...Liberal Club while he was a member. She recalled that "he would scurry along The Broad to committee meetings, gown ballooning in the wind, usually with an armful of books, a cheery little chap with a round, cherubic face like a pink scrubbed cherry stone and a little forelock of short-cropped hair curling briefly onto his forehead...
...average of $30,745 for every mile he has raced. He was 1960's Horse of the Year, seems certain to become the third horse to win that honor two years in a row (the others: Whirlaway, Challedon). This week, with a lucky yellow ribbon wound into his forelock and Old Master Eddie Arcaro in his saddle, Kelso will parade to the post for the most important race of his brief career: the Washington International, 1½ miles over the turf at Maryland's Laurel Race Course. The stakes are a $70,000 winner's purse...
...Cambridge merchants' belated and dissembling tug-of-the-forelock to the venerable Kringle will neither amuse nor bemuse. For, quite plainly, their hasty stringing of garish lights across the city's principal intersection is but a clumsy provincial imitation of those enlightened mertopoleis where Christmas is a real festival. Here, five days after the event, the meagre decorations will be thrown upon a heap of slag...
...into battle on the ringing cry of "millions for defense but not one cent for tribute"-would lend itself to meeting his extortionist demands. Little did he know. Although great efforts were made to keep the whole thing secret, it was soon as obvious as John Kennedy's forelock that the President himself had taken the initiative in setting up the Roosevelt-Reuther-Eisenhower movement...