Word: cheeking
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...Christi, Tex. this week was to march a Jewish rabbi bearing a Menorah or seven-branched temple candelabrum. An Episcopal rector was to read from the Reformed Jewish prayer book. The rabbi in turn was to pronounce the solemn syllables of the King James version of the New Testament. Cheek by jowl in the church pews would sit Episcopalians and Jews of the only U. S. town named for the sacred Body of Christ...
...Schuylkill or the Assembly, whose roster of names has changed but little since it was founded in 1748. But in Philadelphia, as in Boston, finance and society tend to merge in a vast accumulation of personal trust funds. There the Stock Exchange and the Racquet Club stand almost cheek by jowl. Last week, to Philadelphians in their clubs and counting rooms came a profound shock. A dozen of the city's best people and biggest money men were indicted for the grossest kind of fraud...
...Simpson was a picture of "queenly composure" to Hearst Correspondent Thomas Watson. The New York Herald Tribune's Jack Beall emphasized her "spasms of coughing." The New York Times's, W. F. Leysmith cabled: "Frequently her tongue moved rapidly in nervous movements from cheek to cheek. She looked to one seeing her for the first time like a middle-aged woman of the upper classes. She has a wen on the right side of her chin. She told a most ordinary story...
...seemed clear that the present which her bantamweight Premier & Generalissimo was giving his country on his 50th birthday was a heavyweight and possibly a knockout blow of Chinese statecraft, ending the policy toward Japan which the Nanking Government has pursued for nearly a decade: the turn-the-other-cheek policy of accepting humiliation...
...Korean smuggler's craft "will be regarded as an act of piracy on the high seas, and will be treated accordingly."* Though China's face was thus slapped again & again by Japan, Generalissimo Chiang did not waver in his policy of always turning the Christian other cheek. He even had Chinese police beat up and jail hundreds of Chinese students when they demonstrated in Peiping, Shanghai and Tientsin against Japan. At Tokyo's behest, Nanking has dissolved scores of local offices of the Kuomintang, which is the political party of the Generalissimo himself, the only party...