Word: lip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grey dawn. Upstairs in a farmhouse near Milan, Mo. lay a burly middle-aged man with a scarred lip, asleep. Near his pillow lay a loaded pistol. But he did not wake up when four stealthy-figures entered the bedroom and "covered" him with a submachine gun, did not have time to snatch his weapon before they had seized and beaten him into submission...
...Joseph Hunsaker, a Green City, Mo. truck driver who likes detective fiction, saw a picture of the man accused of conducting the massacre of seven Chicago Moran gangsters on St. Valentine's day two years ago (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929). The man in the picture had a scarred lip and ruffy face. So did the stranger who lately married into the nearby Porter family, thought Joseph Hunsaker. The stranger seemed to have plenty of money, always in bills of large denominations. He never did any work, took long mysterious trips. Joseph Hunsaker took his suspicions to the Sullivan County sheriff...
...Russian waiter . . . nonchalantly approaching an elderly American gentleman . . . who has been waiting for one hour to have his order taken . . . and asking for a light for the cigaret that dangles from his nether lip...
...perversions of the truth, instead of apologizing like gentlemen for your oversight, you indulged in spite-silly sneers at my efforts to earn a living from journalism. Not even inveterate personal rancor, of which you have given innumerable proofs, can justify such methods. "You always refer with the curled lip of assumed superiority to the Hirst [sic] press, edited as it is by Mr. Brisbane, one of the most brilliant publicists in the world. I challenge you to produce from the Hirst newspapers such a gross example of journalistic dishonesty as I have now exposed." Editor Dawson's retorts...
Deeply mortified, Admiral Sir Hubert George Brand, Commander-in-Chief of the Plymouth Naval Base, canceled invitations for his daughter's dance last week. A thing had happened which caused the awful word MUTINY to fly from lip to lip throughout England. The incident...