Word: lip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most Republicans were against it. Charging that the Republicans were giving lip service to housing but undercutting it with their votes, Majority Leader John McCormack shouted: "What mockery it is, what doubletalk. One may fool the public today, but not next November, because this is going to be a live issue next fall." Republicans disregarded the threat, and so, for that matter, did 81 Democrats. The housing bill, providing close to $4.1 billion for Government loans, passed without Harry Truman's built-in feature for middle-income earners...
...lip's bleeding ... all over the pillow . . . You're rather exciting when you lose your temper. I wish you'd do it oftener . . . What are you crawling about...
Even at his own tea table, Epstein is a lonely looking and rather frightening figure. Mountainous, with a fighter's set face and contemptuously protruding lower lip, he speaks in a forbidding rumble. Modern art, curiously enough, is one of his pet hates: "When I get discouraged I look at Picasso's stuff and then I feel better about what I'm doing." He himself once flirted with cubism, "but I abandoned the lady very early and since then she has prospered under other patronage." The semi-abstract sculptures of Henry Moore, with their pinheads and pierced...
...ever was, civilization is nothing now to write poems about. T. S. Eliot is a thinking and a feeling man, and a Christian ; he is not a happy man. The commentator on a tragedy cannot be expected to sound like a radio announcer lip-deep in molasses. He may sometimes crackle, but he will never snap...
...most of it. Wearing his hauteur like a mask and registering most emotions with his eyebrows, Coward almost qualifies for a Broadway revue sketch parodying Noel Coward. In more ways than one, the victim of the piece is Celia Johnson, a fine actress doomed to wear a stiff upper lip through the whole ugly mess...