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Word: lip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drop that language!'' he roared, his big mustache fluttering like an angry brown moth on his upper lip. "Such words are not suitable to Parliament. I won't tolerate such language. Go use it on the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Drop That Language! | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

...pulling leather. In the "bulldogging" contest Mike Hastings of Lobo, Tex. took 22 1/10 sec. to overtake a Texas longhorn. In bulldogging the steer gets a 30 ft. start, the 'dogger leaps from his horse to the steer's head, throws it on its side, bites its lip and raises his hands in victory. For the first time in the show's history one cowboy, Fred Meyers of Okmulgee, Okla., won both the calf (20 8/10 sec.) and steer (24 1/10 sec.) roping contests. Rival of Cheyenne's Frontier Days is the Pendleton, Ore. Roundup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Frontier Days | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...Open Champion Billy Burke, modest, claims to have made no hole-in- one. But playing Horton Smith in the 1930 P. G. A. championship, he laid his first shot on the lip of the cup. Smith's putt knocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley exhibited to friends in the War Department a cut lip. Said he: "I'm teaching my seven-year-old son [Wilson] how to box. Today he lammed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 1, 1931 | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...shot of Swanson drying herself in a towel robe after a shower, in which the spectator is allowed to discover that she has been taking a shower in a brassiere). Too free play has been given to the famed Swansonian mannerisms, goo goo eyeing and curling her upper lip to show off her teeth. Best shot: the fadeout, with Miss Swanson dreaming blissfully in the arms of a ship's officer whom she has mistaken for her fianc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 18, 1931 | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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