Word: lippedness
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Aloof, and thin-lipped, Judge Samuel Seabury moved out of the news and was scarcely heard from again. Last week, at 85, the man who had helped muffle the roar of the '20s died in a Long Island nursing home.
Within 42 hours, police, swarming into the integrated area around the Penn campus, collared all eleven of the junior-grade thugs, aged 15 to 19. In municipal court a pursed-lipped judge quickly ruled they must be tried for murder as adults. Philadelphia, its brotherly love strained like many another...
Flying into London for a two-week concert tour, robust Singer Ella Fitzgerald ran afoul of tight-lipped British customs officials, who held up Ella and her eleven-man troupe for almost two hours on a luggage search (object of the hunt: unspecified contraband), cut open toothpaste tubes, analyzed a...
I wish to assure you that it is not an everyday sight-"a tight-lipped child followed by other children shrilly jeering, 'Your father's a dirty scab!'"
TOGETHER AGAIN, gushed the Daily Express, IS IT GOODBYE AGAIN? asked the Daily Mirror. To Londoners, the boldface heads and bolder prose meant one thing: while Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip were paying a state visit to The Netherlands, tight-lipped Group Captain Peter Townsend, 43, at the end of...