Word: cheeking
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Henry Ford had good reason to feel, last week, like a man who has not only turned the other cheek and been smacked on it, but has then been kicked in the pants...
...fashionable. She made speeches for trade unions and took off her clothes for the Spanish Republic. More recently she has taken them off for France, Britain and the aluminum drive. Her publicity on these occasions has not been free of a smirk. Now the smirk is on the other cheek...
...asked to cut a slice off its own overfat parliamentary rump. New Hampshire's Constitution provides one representative for every town (or city ward) of 600 inhabitants, one more for every 1,200 additional citizens. When the Legislature is in session, say old New Hampshiremen, with tongue in cheek, there is a scarcity of labor in the State...
...woman with an enormous cancer of the cheek walked into the office of Dr. Emanuel Louis Stammer of Queens, N.Y. The woman said she had been given many X-ray and radium treatments at Queens General Hospital; none of them seemed to do any good...
...Dutchman was in a tight spot. The Government was in the rubber and tin business, and so the answer that had worked with oil would not do this time. Minister van Mook, tongue in cheek, took refuge in "reasonableness." He announced that his Government would treat Japan as well as it treated Great Britain and the U.S., but could not treat it better because, after all, Britain was an ally and Japan was not. It was also reasonable to refuse to sell Japan more products than Japan could reasonably use for home consumption, since Germany, Japan's ally...