Word: lippedness
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Energetic Drift. Like the British Constitution, the Yale code is unwritten; it is simply in the air. It echoes back to the 19th Century, to the days of William Howard Taft ('78) when undergraduates carried bangers (canes), hired sweeps (servants), and felt it bad form to "talk stand" (discuss...
Charley's cluttered waterfront scenes are a far cry from Vermeer's luminous View of Delft, her masklike portraits a long jump from Rembrandt. Nonetheless, Charley rightfully considers most of her painting "very Dutch," especially the group portraits where full-lipped, wide-eyed Hollanders stare thoughtfully into space...
Next day. pale, tight-lipped Prime Minister Clement Attlee said: "There has been a prohibition of all major strategic materials." British shipments to Red China, he insisted, had not included "warships, aircraft or anything of that sort . . ." They did include "bicycles, perambulators ... wire mattresses, nails, tacks, rivets, manhole covers . . ." But...
For almost three years, Mrs. Ellen Knauff had been knocking at the door, trying to get into the U.S. All she got was a turndown; all newsmen could learn from tight-lipped Immigration officials was that she was considered a "bad security risk" (TIME, May 29).
A lean, tight-lipped man in a neat brown suit presented himself in Federal Judge Henry Goddard's Manhattan courtroom. The judge said briefly: "You are surrendering to the marshal?" Said the lean man: "Yes, sir." A deputy marshal led Alger Hiss away to a detention cell.