Word: lippedness
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Although no hot-lipped trumpeter like his boss, Under Secretary Slattery released a report full of tall talk in Technicolor, pausing occasionally to put the blast on antique U. S. misconceptions of Alaska (see map). He found:
On New York highways tight-lipped pickets of the new Dairy Farmers' Union halted market-bound trucks, spilled thousands of gallons on the roadsides. Strikers in automobiles threw bottles of kerosene on trucks that did not stop. Pickets fought State troopers, deputies and non-strikers. One man, slow getting...
Yet those were the headquarters and that was the funeral of one of the richest men in the world, a man who by floating loans could keep whole countries from sinking, whose death and its subsequences may cause a political crisis in France. This financial emperor was a fat-lipped...
Bethlehem. One hard-headed tycoon who talks (four times a year) is Eugene Grace, whom Charles Schwab brought up to be the thin-lipped king of Bethlehem. Last week Grace declared for the benefit of his stockholders their first dividend (50? a share, $1,591,992) since Christmas 1937. This...
In Manhattan last week, on their way from London to Hollywood (he to play Quasimodo, she probably Esmeralda, in RKO's revival of The Hunchback of Notre Dame), were heavy-lidded, heavy-lipped Actor Charles Laughton and his 18-year-old protegee, picture-pretty, red-headed Dubliner Maureen O...