Word: kissing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME regrets misquoting Judge Lindsey. What he did say about Denver high school girls was that 90% of them hug & kiss, 50% of the 90% go further, 15% to 25% of the 90% "go the limit. This does not imply or mean promiscuity or frequency, but it happens...
Last week's crowd caught its first glimpse of "Pop" Cleveland greeting each woman pilot in the Cord Cup Race with an enormous hug & kiss. Fifty-nine planes had set out from Washington and Los Angeles a week earlier, their paths converging at Bartlesville, Okla. into a home stretch to Cleveland. As it was scored by lap-points, everyone knew when the racers reached Cincinnati that Roy Hunt of Oklahoma would win in his slow Great Lakes Trainer...
...tongue could wag undisturbed. His entrances were timed strategically: just as a gathering was preparing to break up Proust would enter, set the room abuzz with his rapid-fire monolog: "Do you know whether the Due de? stayed on in the boudoir with Mme Z? Could you explain the kiss he gave her, in the very middle of the ball?" "Overwhelmingly" gentle in voice, elaborately formal in manner, Proust smiled continually, gazed fondly at society from brilliant black eyes under drooping eyelids and "a Saracen's beak." Extravagant, generous?his tips were fantastic?he dressed like the dandy...
...head of New York Jewelers Exchange Inc. and a generous Democrat, brought to the station three pretty girls with baskets of roses which they sprinkled under the Mayor's trim little feet. From the hooraying throng an elderly woman wriggled through the police lines and planted a loud kiss on the Walker cheek. "Attaboy, Jimmy! You showed 'em Jimmy! We're with you, Jimmy!" was again the welcoming cry. But inside the Executive Chamber at Albany where the Mayor of New York was on trial for his official life, there had been no cheers, no applause...
...Tune Detective, Dr. Spaeth sings, plays and analyzes snatches from current popular songs. Some 2,000 people, most of them men, write in weekly to ask questions, make suggestions. Most obvious recent song-pilferings, says Detective Spaeth, were two tunes by Charley Tobias and Peter De Rose, "One More Kiss and Then Good Night" and "Somebody Loves You." After Dr. Spaeth exposed these, the publishers righted matters simply, by adding on the sheet music the names of Lou Herscher & Art Coogan, and Charles Maskell, who had composed the originals...