Word: lip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remained for Senator Glass to curl his lip scornfully, grip his desk with both hands and pronounce a final damnation of the Soft Money arguments. Drawled he out of the right corner of his mouth...
Shoehorned humbly into a group of presumably sane people-his host, a lawyer, two girl friends, a housekeeper, a butler, a detective and the host's sister- Parker progressively webs them all in their own words and impales them on insane lip-logic. An opportunist juggling ideals, he shifts positions faster than the others, stares long & unfazed into their faces, razzle-dazzles them with winning sophistries until he has confused, ingratiated, amazed, enraged, baffled and terrified them...
...When the picture was first exhibited he insisted that the title be merely "Arrangement in Gray and Black." To Harper Pennington, a friend who was enthusiastic over the spiritual quality of the picture, the Butterfly suddenly softened. "Yes, -yes," he drawled, tugging gently at the little tuft under his lip, "one does like to make one's mummy just as nice as possible." So simple, so calm is the "Mother" that it is difficult to realize with what angry cluckings it was hailed on its first exhibition. Only because Sir William Boxall, Whistler's friend, argued himself hoarse...
Herriot Plan. In his speech to the Chamber, booming Premier Herriot drew cheers by declaring that the British Government now stands shoulder to shoulder with France in resisting as a sham the German Government's note demanding "arms equality" (TIME, Sept. 26). "They [Germans] pay lip homage to the universal desire for peace," cried M. Herriot, "but their demand is actually for the rearmament of Germany. If the German note itself was not perfectly clear the speeches and interviews given by the German Defense Minister, General Kurt von Schleicher, have left us in no doubt...
...League is on trial," said President de Valera. "There is a suspicion abroad that little more than lip service is being paid to the fundamental principles upon which the League was founded. There is a suspicion that the action of the League in the economic sphere can be paralyzed by the pressure of national interests. There is a suspicion, gentlemen, that if the hand that is raised against the Covenant of the League is sufficiently strong it can smite with impunity...