Word: cheeking
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...bridegroom doggedly lasted out a double-row, round-the-block reception line, pumping the hands of the men and kissing the women on the cheek. The bride had to retire with a dizzy spell...
Beyond the fence were other barriers. When the foreigners spoke brokenly or had trouble with restaurant menus, some Oswegonians snickered. Once, when a Yugoslav couple bade a visitor goodbye at the bus station and the men kissed each other on the cheek, townfolk watched with open amusement. Staid Oswego (pop. 22,062) was unprepared for such a massive transfusion; it could not help gaping, winking, misunderstanding, resenting...
...singers of racial discord might . . . get a better pitch from Hawaii where a gigantic Japanese population of Nisei, Issei, and Kibei have for years lived and worked amicably cheek by jowl with members of many other races. From here the hysterical nonsense of the Pacific Coast seems incredible...
...aside her black tricorn, unveiled two "private hats": 1) a broad, black-on-white sailor straw; 2) a trim white Panama with black veil. She seemed to enjoy the leavetaking. At a farewell party at the Statler Hotel she gave Senator Robert F. Wagner an astonishing kiss on the cheek; at another party she shook the hands of 1,800 Labor Department employes (see cut). Her plans: a month in Maine with her ailing husband Paul Wilson; beyond that she would not say. The other departing Cabinet officers were more definite about their futures. Francis Biddle would take up lawyering...
Lieut. General William H. Simpson, in Pittsburgh, planted an all-out buss on the cheek of Granddaughter Jean Stevenson...