Word: cheeking
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...hefty magnet and an almanac. This, of course, is where the fun should begin. But it doesn't. Bing riffles through his wonder-working stunts, jousts with Sir Launcelot (Henry Wilcox-son) and rescues King Arthur's beautiful niece (Rhonda Fleming) with his tongue conspicuously in his cheek. To underline his bare-faced parody of a second-rate Bing Crosby, he also sings a few typically Crosby tunes...
...Club men are genial only with other Club men or if they are just naturally "hail-fellows-well-met." Finally, the author draws an absurd parallel between the exclusiveness of political groups and that of the final Clubs. This little exercise in sophistry seems to be openly tongue-in-cheek as does the pompous argument that the Clubs are merely supplying what the Houses are supposed to give...
...pride of Belleville, Ark., wearing a huge cud of tobacco in one cheek, forgot at times that it was only an exhibition game. "When I step on the field," Sain once said, "I'm not making a social call. I'm a professional baseball player doing what I'm paid for, which is to get batters out." Against one Cincinnati batter, he fired his big, jug-handled curve (the best in baseball), then a screwball, and then the fast one. The umpire's thumb jerked upward; the batter, Outfielder Frank Baumholtz, was out on three pitched...
...third was Daniel ("Danny Brooks") Gentile, a washed-up club-fighter who ran some of Dunn's bookie concessions. They got Andy Hintz coming downstairs from the third floor. Squint's gun clicked and missed. Then the Cockeye coolly pumped five slugs into Andy Hintz's cheek, chest and belly. Hintz staggered back into the apartment. "Maisie, I'm dying," he gasped at his wife. "Johnny Dunn shot me." Andy Hintz hung on to life long enough to see Dunn brought before him in the hospital and to identify him. He tried to pull...
...living have a high rate, added Cameron, because they hold the bobbin in their mouths, and get tar smudges on their lips. Fumes from tar-surfaced roads may also be a hazard. Pacific island natives who chew tar-bearing betel nuts have a high rate of cancer of the cheek...