Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Talmadge and Harold Le Clair Ickes love each other. The Governor of Georgia, a master of Southern invective, and the Secretary of the Interior, who possesses the most sulphurous vocabulary in the New Deal, long ago singled out each other for particular attention. Month ago Secretary Ickes curled his lip and sneered: ''Really, I don't pay much attention to anything his Chain-Gang Excellency says." Governor Talmadge drawled back: "Aw! He's just one of them boon- dogglers...
...reality." This seemed to indicate another half turn of the Government on its firm pivot and the Prime Minister ended his speech with a clear conscience exactly where he and the Conservative Party had stood not only before the election but long before, namely in an attitude of handsome lip service to and handsome contempt for the League of Nations. In his closing sentence Party Leader Baldwin, with his party whips cracking smartly, begged: "I would say to this House: I ask at any rate that all those who call themselves supporters of mine give me their confidence tonight...
...moment finally arrived. The blow that ended the fight was the sort that a fat bartender lays into an objectionable drunk. Its progress was slow, inevitable, evident to all present. It laid Uzcudun flat on his back. It also opened his cheek, drove one of his teeth through his lip...
...time," but offers little evidence to support his view. Kipling's merit in Maurois' eyes is that he championed an heroic conception of life from the time, as a 21-year-old newspaper man in India, he published his first works, celebrating the stiff-upper-lip theory of the Englishman's duty to the Empire. Born only eight years after the Bengal Mutiny of 1857, Kipling lived in a period when English control of India was seriously threatened. Sent to England when he was 5, returning to India at 17, he developed a glamorous picture of colonial...
...Zais he'll be lucky if his men Hole Harvard to 30 points, and he's right. Crimson team will give big Joslin to man mountain Mountain, the Green Mountain Mountain who plays at tackle. Mountain won't be a Mountain to much when Burton starts to Burton his lip, and Mitchener's Mob from the Blackwoods will fall rapidly. Sage is goddam tired of this punny business. How he wishes he were back in his own China again, flinging Huey to his little friends in peace and quiet. Thank God only one victory to predict after this one. Today...