Word: cheeking
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...scarce. Stores have no difficulty selling anything they can get. Books disappear from shelves as quickly as the dealers put them there. Customers ask music dealers for records of Jingle, Jangle, Jingle or He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings but are satisfied with songs as old as Cheek to Cheek. Movie theaters are packed with customers delighted to see The Courtship of Andy Hardy...
...akin to the ancient Greek spirit of the hearth and Chinese ancestor worship. Satyagraha was coined by Gandhi from the words Saty (truth and love) and agraha (firmness) as the Hindu interpretation of soul force. Closely akin to this is Christ's admonition to "turn the other cheek...
Nervous Harry Hopkins missed no lines, dropped no ring, scuffed no shoes. At 18 minutes after twelve, by the mantel clock, the ceremony was over. Franklin Roosevelt took "Louie" Macy Hopkins' hand, kissed her on the cheek...
...never been quite the same man since. . . . Besides the broken nose, I had two bent ribs and a crushed sinus in my cheek that gave me fainting spells for years...
...together?" She looked at him for a long time and smiled. "You don't know who I am, do you?" she said. She was Alex Morden's widow, but she did not say so to Lieut. Tonder. She pitied him at last, stroked his hand, stroked his cheek. "God keep you," he said as he left. Then Molly Morden realized that her feeling of pity was an impermissible weakness that might lead to disaster. Others offered to kill the officer for her. She realized that, because she pitied him, she must kill him herself. The next time...