Word: cheeking
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...would offer a fleeting target. The moment finally arrived. The blow that ended the fight was the sort that a fat bartender lays into an objectionable drunk. Its progress was slow, inevitable, evident to all present. It laid Uzcudun flat on his back. It also opened his cheek, drove one of his teeth through...
With the possible exception of "I won't Dance" in Roberta, the "Cheek to Cheek" number in "Top Hat" is our favorite bit of Astairia. Ginger Rogers still has that faintly sullen expression, and her dancing has improved miraculously since her first faltering steps in the "Gay Divorce...
...three men who founded Groton, Billings ("Mr. B.") and Gardner ("Mr. G.") are dead. Endicott Peabody at 78 is as quick of wit and pink of cheek as a man of 60. Every boy and master knows that the Rector misses nothing, that his word is law. Dr. Peabody still coaches one of the intramural crews, still rides horseback. Sometimes Mrs. Peabody rides with him. A handsome, fragile lady, in black velvet dog collar and pearls, the Rector's wife has been a Peabody all her life and the Groton colors, red, white & black, were the colors...
...Leverett-Eliot game was a drab affair, neither team being able to get its offense functioning. Eliot had the heavier team but the scrappiness of the Leverett eleven held them in cheek...
...Return of Peter Grimm (RKO). Lionel Barrymore is the cantankerous florist who, feeling a cold breath on his cheek, hastily completes arrangements to perpetuate the two projects dearest to his heart: his nurseries, and the happiness of his ward, Helen Mack. When, after death, he discovers that his plans will result only in decimating the first and stultifying the second he comes back. He has trouble getting through to the living at first, finally finds a doorway open to him-the mind of a child (George Breakston) who is slipping over into his world. Through that youngster he saves...