Word: lip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a young German cadet rubbed dirt into his small dueling wounds that they might grow the greater. Many a major's pride was the livid white scar running from lip to ear which marks the man tough enough to endure the severing and sewing on of a whole cheek...
Everyone knows the hideous aspects of erysipelas. From a tiny red blotch at the nose or on the cheek near an eye, an angry red spreads out into a wide, fiery stain. The skin tingles. It burns. When the stain reaches the spongy cheek or lip tissues, these swell into a horrible, puffy, burning mass. Sometimes the disease works into the scalp and down the neck. The toxins are filtering through the lymphatic fluids. The patient is feverish and drowsy. Heretofore the only cure has been to let the disease run its course, to ease the pain by hot fomentations...
...Then he stooped, bowed his head, and struck. The white ball flew 156 yards to the green, bounded exuberantly toward the cup. Mr. Rockefeller shouted for joy. He traversed at a brisk trot the distance that separated him from his putt. The ball, once more obedient, hung on the lip of the cup. He tapped it in for a par 3, cut a caper...
...association. They knew that their fellow members understand as well as any merchants in the U. S. the meaning of that fine phrase, and the dry-goods men, as is their wont, responded heartily. Many were the delighted slaps and winks, the chewed cigars, the roguish stories passed from lip to lip amid shouts of, "Brother, you surely made a sale with that one" . . . "Let me tell you a red-hot one" . . . "Now down south they say" . . . "The one about the man with a harelip and the woman with St. Vitus' dance. . . ." It is true that among...
...Washington the last time, I called on the President; and I thought I ought to thank him, not only for his interest in the cathedral, but for his repeatedly expressed attitude on the subject of religion. And as I thanked this quiet, reserved man, his upper lip trembled, and he said: 'Mr. White, no nation has ever been able to endure, no nation will be able to endure, without religion...