Word: lip
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Gilmore and Leonard, rightfully known as Ireland's Kings, supported by a company of reputable performers of rare ability. Speaking of wasted energy, one can not cease to marvel at the large ingenuity expended in this creation. Leonard's description of the veteran who has been shot in the lip, and years after tries to tell the story of the "battle ob de Wappahanook," is a piece of blithering nonsense calculated to make a sane man doubt his own sanity, even as he wipes away the tears of laughter. So secure seats at once and drive dull care away...
...everyone who imagined that Harvard was to prove an easy winner over Yale in the second meeting of the University Track Athletic Association yesterday afternoon at New Haven, the old adage, "There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip," must recur as possessing peculiar relevance. Fortunately, Harvard did not make enough slips to prevent her from winning the cup and at the end of the meeting, Harvard had 61 points to her credit while Yale had to content herself with 51 points and the doubtful consolation that she came very near beating her hereditary rival...