Word: jowl
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...this week was to march a Jewish rabbi bearing a Menorah or seven-branched temple candelabrum. An Episcopal rector was to read from the Reformed Jewish prayer book. The rabbi in turn was to pronounce the solemn syllables of the King James version of the New Testament. Cheek by jowl in the church pews would sit Episcopalians and Jews of the only U. S. town named for the sacred Body of Christ...
...more expansive moments, but today its application is to the Houses' rather than Europe's history. For years the Houses have been taxing each other's resources by policies of ruthless competition, culminating last year in a grand debacle, with Houses sponsoring dances with "big name" orchestras cheek by jowl with one another undercutting freely, and using high-pressure advertising tactics...
...Labor and Liberal newsorgans but, taking their cue from their Government, Conservative London papers did their best to ignore Haile Selassie, tucked news that he was coming into obscure squibs. Nevertheless, 5,000 unofficial welcomers rushed to Waterloo Station. Among them were Chinese, Hindus, Arabs and Negroes, cheek by jowl with English of every class, including pink-cheeked gentlemen in high silk hats and ladies, some of whom waved simultaneously the British and Ethiopian flags as the private Pullman car of Haile Selassie drew...
...Stories. Director Sanford Bates of the U. S. Bureau of Prisons contributed an earnest description of "Our Island Fortress, Alcatraz." Two pages later came a lurid account of "Ohio's 'Bathtub Crime,' " complete with a provocative sketch of a murdered woman in the nude. Cheek by jowl with a learned discussion of "Scientific Crime Detection" from Assistant Superintendent H. J. Martin of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was the life story of Los Angeles' Thomas M. White, the "Rattlesnake Bandit." John J. Bennett, "New York State's Fighting Attorney General," sounded the war cry against...
...Manhattan's Hippodrome last week, Tenor Sidney Raynor's bite went wild. He missed Baritone Rocco Pandiscio's ear, took a painful nip out of the Pandiscio cheek. Peace was made over the bandaging backstage. Later in the evening Baritone Pandiscio went onstage with his round jowl swathed. He played his next role heartily, the doleful clown in Pagliacci...