Word: lip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several years subsequent to 1918 the air of Europe was filled with the clatter and clang of builders and the word Reconstruction was on every lip. While the world now hears less about the tremendous task of rearing new structures on Europe's ruins, the process is still under way; and now that the battered homes of refugees have been replaced, those who are directing the rehabilitation find an even more difficult duty in restoring the monuments of culture so uterly devastated during the four years...
...road, the car lurched violently. Safe as mutton sat 300-lb. Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe of New Orleans. Startled into silence, 250-lb. Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago shot aloft, collided with the top, came down with nose and lip cut and bleeding. Next day the Young Men's Republican Club of New Orleans adopted a resolution which would have salved worse wounds: ". . . We believe that by the time the Republican Convention is at hand the leaders of the party will recognize the widespread popularity and genuine qualities of leadership of William Hale Thompson...
...been proven again by the breaking out of another epidemic of cooperative study in the Reading Room of the Library. Two heads are not better than one when a constant flow of whispers pours from them and disturbs their neighbors. The cause of education is rendered an incessant lip service by these individuals, who are innocent of the knowledge that this method survives in the secondary schools of China, but has a place only in the elementary division of American schooling...
...Democracy is an esoteric mystery in which few east of Vienna are permitted to enjoy, though many render lip service to the name, and it still remains, what it has long been, the most gainful occupation open to the fortunate few," said assistant professor W. Y. Elliott, quoting from a letter from Professor A. N. Holcombe of the department of government, who is in Europe this year studying the governments of the verious countries...
...craned their necks as far as halter straps permitted. A stranger was coming among them. He was an elderly gentleman rigged squarishly in black clothes; he wore gloves and a blocky black hat. One horse, a jumper, he patted on the nose. The horse wiggled the hairs on its lip. This stranger loved horses. He was, in fact Bishop William Thomas Manning who had gone with one of his daughters (Frances) to the opening of the second yearly Cathedral Horse Show. Earnings of the show fortify the endowment of the Sportsmen's Bay in the Episcopal Cathedral...