Word: lip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Bertram Wooster, Esq. is one of the few unchanging figures of the times. Stable is the word that comes to mind. Enduring. The old Grecian marble sort of thing. Still, as Jeeves would say, appearances may be deceptive. For after years of presenting to the world an upper lip not necessarily on the stiff side but always as smooth as a baby's whatever-it-is, Wooster has now grown a mustache. Dashing, don't you know, debonaire-at least in the eyes of the young master himself. But Jeeves, a devotee of the lifted-eyebrow school...
...second person into the city, right behind General Leclere. It was a wonderful day--fighting and drinking and reveling in the streets. You would shoot at Germans and then step back into a doorway and kiss a pretty girl. Men were dying all around me covered with lip rouge all over their faces from so much kissing...
Clarence Brown bit his lower lip, jammed his hands in his pockets and slouched off the House floor. Cleveland Bailey charged into the House well to register a technical protest. He was over ruled. Les Arends, leaving the chamber with sweat dripping from his forehead, sighed: "And they say we don't earn...
...Palm Springs, Calif., Leo ("The Lip") Duroc'her, bellicose manager of the New York Giants, dawdled with a golf club while his neatly fabricated wife, Cinemactress Laraine Day, photographed a sunny scene for their family archives. Durocher's sunny mood and vacation will end next week, when he will be in Phoenix to start spring training, whip the world champion Giants into shape for aiming at their 18th National League pennant...
Forcing the Fight. The joint committee, after hearing Strauss, decided not to talk any more about the Dixon-Yates contract during the current hearings. Just before the decision was made, California's noisy Democratic Representative Chet Holifield shot from the lip. "Mr. Chairman," said Holifield, "no matter how deep you bury it, it is still going to smell bad." Holifield may have been right, although not in the way he meant. Commented the New York Times's Pundit Arthur Krock: "The most unattractive exhibition of partisan politics the capital has witnessed for years is the row over...