Word: lip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better mouse trap than his fellows. So they trooped to the haunts of the Vagabond and lay "upon the hills like Gods together careless of mankind." They were Harvard men; one of the Old Guard of '95, one of '28, a youth who was learning to stroke his lip thatch and was cutting his first History One lecture, and the Vagabond...
...every station. Oilman Kingsbury retaliated by sending a truck filled with water buffaloes, elks, and lesser animals C. O. D. to the bank, its arrival being announced by a lusty, liveried bugler. Mr. Fleishhacker was once grieved to learn that his good friend had been bitten on the lip by a pet dog. Promptly he entered the Kingsbury sanctum on all fours, barking and growling. Another time he set a trap in Mr. Kingsbury's office so that when the oilman opened the door 100 pigeons flew into his face. Hilarious was the scene when Mr. Kingsbury entered...
Professor Reck took the Oldoway man home to Berlin where he examined the find in detail. Oldoway stood 5 ft. 10½ in. He had long legs and a long narrow head. His nose was big, his upper lip long, his jaw and chin massive. He looked like many a Hamite still to be seen in Northeastern Africa. To Professor Reck, Oldoway's lower teeth seemed filed to points, a fashion current among certain living African tribes...
...established a resort shop. When away from New York he leaves his business in the hands of Sons Arthur & George, vice presidents. He was in Palm Beach last week and Son George, who looks like his father except for more hair on his head-and none on his lip, had the honor of opening the Greenwich branch store, of being welcomed by First Selectman Oscar D. Tuthill and a committee of borough officials...
...fitful glare of flames reflected in the inverted muskmelon crowning the Dunster House Tower, whither he had retired in his eternal quest for "dat ole davil" indifference who is reputed to haunt the University. Instinctively he reached for the rope to sound the tocsin but bit his lip when he realized where...