Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Positive Christianity." Recalling Adolf Hitler's blanket promise that "the [Nazi] Party never intended and does not intend today to combat Christianity in any way whatever," the Evangelical Manifesto drew attention to the fact that all Nazi organizations, while paying lip service to what they call "positive Christianity," vigorously oppose what they call "negative Christianity." Both these terms are pure Nazi inventions and mean whatever the Nazi locally in charge chooses them to mean. On this the Manifesto quotes Nazi authorities...
...Jung is a thorough-going Swiss--bluff, independent, wise and utterly aloof from political entanglements. To a mind of such university the Nazi racket is a phenomenon to be impersonally studied, and perhaps judged from an emotional distance. That he should be persuaded to pay lip service to the present German regime cannot be supposed by anyone who knows him. And finally, and this is the point, there is no indication that any sentiments that he may entertain on this subject have affected his scientific work
...Arteen Ekizian, 30-year-old Turk, one time fish-peddler, U. S. sailor and Hollywood "extra." To 5,000 raucous spectators he was Ali Baba, the Terrible Turk of whom posters asked IS HE MAN OR BEAST? Ali Baba's head resembled a speckled ostrich egg. His upper lip was hidden behind a sweeping pair of handle bar mustachios. His teeth were jagged and irregular. His short legs which sup ported his 205 Ib. wabbled like...
...sniped at Capitalism with out attracting much attention. Last week, however, Hearstpapers were headlining PURGE OF PULPIT REDS DEMANDED as 75 members of the Federation sat down to a preConference meeting in Columbus. Conscious of suc cess in the past in getting Methodist conferences to give at least lip service to liberalism, the Federation presented to the Columbus gathering a memorial denouncing "profit-seeking economy." In turn Methodist laymen presented the Conference with resolutions to compel the Federation to delete "Methodist" from its name; to bar any bishop or Conference officer from serving as a Federation official; to lodge...
They realize that stripped by merciless satire and ridicule of their tinsel, their flag-waving, and their lip-service to the tenets of human liberty and progress, men and women everywhere will see them and their cohorts for what they are-dealers in death and destruction...