Word: lipless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jammed and squashed into nine large halls, some 30,000 workpeople heard the Prime Minister's husky voice, mostly from the lipless mouths of loud speakers...
...astounding "Grande Catherine" of this orgy is a woman of 42. Her dark determined eyes seemed never to waver under police querying. When she had answered a question her straight almost lipless mouth shut in a thin, flat line. At her sumptuous estate in Boulogne, where she was arrested, she said disdainfully to the somewhat excited and strenuous investigators: "Here are my keys. You need not trouble to burst open my drawers and root in them like cochons." Even in jail she seemed undiscouraged. "My arrest, pouf! It is nothing," she said, "I work by American methods...