Word: cheeking
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...nervously for some 15 minutes, waved once or twice to the hundreds of British women who kept waving at him from behind police lines. As Princess Marina stepped out in a sleek, brick-red ensemble Prince George took her in his arms and kissed her on the cheek, received a kiss on his cheek in return...
David Bradley Cheek '34, of Wollaston, Mass.; university football team, university track team, chairman of 1934 class day committee; will attend the graduate school--Apley hall...
...production has the ring of authenticity, the small details having been apparently well taken care of. Quite evident is the fact that the picture has been produced under the new "spotless" regime, there being nary a line that could bring even a blush to your grandmother's cheek. The nearest approach is by Mercedes (Elissa Landt) who, when in the course of a discussion of Dante's qualifications for marriage it was remarked that he "had no family", coyly retorted that she "would give...
...Satirist Lardner had his tongue in his cheek, he may also have been aware of the finding of psychologists that the words commonly thought to be ugly-sounding are so considered, consciously or unconsciously, because of unpleasant associations and not because of phonetical harshness. Scholars recognize a few words as truly onomatopoeic; e.g., tinkle, plash, squawk. But in the vast majority of cases the reaction of a hearer is determined by meaning, not by combinations of vowels and consonants...
Most distasteful to Italy's Cupid was a grave irregularity last week at Avellino. Rosino Consolazio, 19, agreed with her fiance Montalberti Filcorate, 23, to end their engagement in a duel. On the field of honor she shot him through the head, received a flesh wound in the cheek...