Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Overlate to stop a war, the Government ranged itself at the eleventh hour behind the Covenant at Geneva. Even now its action has been slow and halt hearted. While paying lip service to the League, it is planning a vast, expensive rearmament program which will only stimulate similar programs elsewhere. Government is a danger to the peace of the world and to the security of this nation...
Under the microscope with needle knives Professor Spemann operates on fertilized animal eggs no bigger than pinheads. By such minute work has he determined that a minute point in the ripening egg, the dorsal lip of the blastopore, is where the cells which eventually form the body begin to take special form. He has transplanted a bit of dorsal lip from one egg to the blastopore of a different kind of egg, watched the egg develop as if it were the bastard of some primitive miscegenation. The usefulness of Dr. Spemann's researches is remote...
...Well might so mad a state of affairs make the Governor of the Bank of England howl, but the Chancellor of Britain's Exchequer is icy Neville Chamberlain, and last week this hook-nosed paragon of Conservatism favored the same London banquet with his stiff upper lip...
Such a sham as the government is planning to carry out deceives no one. Senator Nye and his associates had a nobler purpose in their fight for neutrality than to enable the United States to pay lip service to peace while reaping profits from commerce with the belligerents. As it becomes increasingly clear that Europe is moving toward war the truth must be recognized that the embargo cannot go too far. Even if the moral standpoint can be disregarded, the practical one cannot. The embargo on armaments is a good beginning, nothing more. To make neutrality a fact as well...
With his hands sprained, his lower lip slashed and a rib fractured, King Leopold crawled from the car and over to the body of his wife. He could see that she was already dead, her skull fractured, her chest gashed with broken glass. Aides following in a second car rushed hastily back for an ambulance while King Leopold, dazed and bloody, stood looking down at his dead Queen...