Word: lip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other countries in the war. The towns and villages still lie in ruins, but along the entire Poland frontier stretch miles of costly barb wire entanglements through a narrow gap in which the train runs. The Polish side is guarded by a regiment of well uniformed soldiers with their lip sticks and rouged cheeks while on the Russian side there is merely a large wooded arch inscribed with the words Communism destroys frontiers...
...this respect, the college world is only a miniature of the nation at large, and Europe as well. War and reconstruction have discredited liberalism as a philosophy of government; nowhere is it in power. Only politicians pay even lip service to Demos. The prevailing method of government is the dictatorship of a single strong man or of an intelligent minority which maintains itself in power by obscurantist tactics...
Athletes at their training tables began to find fault with things; the little grooves deepened between nostril and upper lip; coaches were conciliatory, recognizing in such indications a touch of overtraining. And on Saturday the melodramatics of football were continued...
...where the charred remnants of lip sticks and rouge preface a return to decency and honesty, there lie also the ashes of a certain amount of truth. When one sets out to burn from truth all vain coverings, one often scorches truth itself. So perhaps the students of this southern college are not quite free from vanity after all. For what is vanity but a kind of ignorance? A glorified ignorance...
...been forbidden by law and the Bishop threatened with arrest if it continued.' The bishops declined to drop the practice, although several bishops have permitted their clergymen to dip the bread in the chalice of wine and give it to communicants to avoid the cup's passing from lip to lip...