Word: lip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public housing, denied he had been ordered to run for office by Wall Street bankers ("the biggest lie of all time"). The most titillating question came from a Columbia University student named Barbara E. Scott. Why, she asked, did he wear a mustache? Answer: shaving hurts the Dewey upper lip...
...lids raised, the pain of my eyes forgotten, immobile and scarcely breathing, my head bent forward till my eyes were scarcely above the lip of my trench, I watched him. This was no error, no trick of the night. This was a Hun-a living and spawning Hun, in snow suit and hood, crawling on his belly toward...
...also offers the fun of watching an eye-rolling, lip-twitching Robert Newton as he wallows outrageously through the role of Long John Silver, one of fiction's most ingratiating scoundrels. Disney apparently liked him well enough to let him steal the whole treasure (as well as the picture), instead of the single sack of coins that Stevenson let him get away with...
Shephard's smile dissolved when a liquor dealer gave him one curled-lip glance in the New Brunswick, NJ. police station and told the cops, "That's the guy." A dozen other merchants nodded their heads positively. The detectives brought in Betty Lester, the buxom widow he had been sparking, and accused them both of passing bad checks through the length & breadth of New Jersey. At the trial, 16 witnesses testified in their behalf, but the liquor dealer was coldly positive:' Cliff Shephard and Betty Lester were sentenced to nine months in the county workhouse. That...
...feud with Donald Crisp, the local tobacco tycoon and father of Patricia Neal. Teaming up with Jeff Corey, a Connecticut Yankee inventor of a newfangled cigarette-making machine, Cooper ruins Tycoon Crisp, marries his spirited daughter and displays his growing ruthlessness by flexing his jaw muscles and compressing his lip. Along the way are all the standard climaxes-street fights, a shooting, a suicide, fires, foreclosures and pointless lovers' quarrels. At the end, discovering that power corrupts and that none of his old friends, not even Madame Bacall, finds him lovable any more, Cooper morosely mounts his horse...