Word: cheeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chicago was strident, corrupt, lavish, fat from war contracts in 1919 when a young hoodlum from Brooklyn slipped into Diamond Jim Colosimo's South Side underworld and muttered his name. The hoodlum, branded on one swart cheek by the razor memento of the Neapolitan Camorra, was Al Capone...
...proposing, balked. Then 20 years old, for five years he had been allowed by indulgent parents to taste the pleasures of Bucharest, and already he was beginning to show decided independence in his choice of women. Instead of making up to the rather plain, high-cheek-boned Grand Duchess Olga, he took a fancy to the prettier and more vivacious Grand Duchess Tatiana, the Tsar's second oldest daughter. Since this was not on the schedule, the matchmakers called the whole affair off, and His Imperial Majesty at length showed his distaste not only for Carol...
...years afterward Swedish resentment over this remained keen. Thus in 1914, when Gustaf V asked the Scandinavian sovereigns to meet him at Malmo, Sweden, to adopt a common policy in the face of World War I, His Majesty was careful to buss the King of Norway on only one cheek and lightly, kissed the King of Denmark heartily on both cheeks. In the much greater emergency of World War II last week, Swedes were happy to see Gustaf V signal that Scandinavia is now united as never before by warmly kissing on both cheeks both Christian X and Haakon...
...Industrious, photo-dramatic, cheek-puffing, eyebrow-waving Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York, was generally considered the best mayor of the world's largest city. Last week even his old rival, Jimmy Walker, admitted...
...progressing development of friendly relations between [the German & Russian] peoples." In outward token of chumminess, Herr von Ribbentrop, whose German aides on the occasion of his first visit said they were sure his Russian hosts were too tactful to ask him to meet a Jew, banqueted in the Kremlin cheek by jowl with two Jewish Soviet Cabinet Commissars...