Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chorus girls shrilled "The Star Spangled Banner" but to most of those gathered in the grand ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania one night last week the result was so much meaningless lip motion. With better understanding they watched a female quintet who indicated "rockets' red glare" spelling out "rockets" with their hands, touching two fingers to their lips ("red"), throwing open palms out from widened eyes ("glare"). Thus began New York's quietest convention in 51 years-the 17th Triennial of the National Association of the Deaf, which has not met in Manhattan since its first...
...luck, not bad management, that was responsible. Author Tomas does his Spanish best to scrub clean the grimy pane of history that separates Cervantes' 16th-Century day from ours but Cervantes' human figure remains darkly obscured. To many a U. S. reader, however, accustomed to paying lip-service to Cervantes' unread classic, any facts about its author's life will be all news...
Adapted from a story by Louis Bromfield. The Life of Vergie Winters is a wet-eyed salute to sacrifice. As such, it is an ideal vehicle for Ann Harding whose specialty is keeping a stiff upper lip amid life's many misfortunes. Actually, the miseries of Vergie Winters are unlikely, exaggerated and avoidable. That they may draw more tears than any of Ann Harding's other recent martyrdoms is due to Director Alfred Santell's clever use of his whole bag of tricks, including "asides" and sequences of "narratage." Typical shot: Vergie Winters, when little Joan runs...
Three months ago in Washington. Wisconsin's Representative Raymond J. Cannon bumped a taxi. Out of the taxi stepped three members of the New York Stock Exchange: its onetime President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons, with an injured shoulder; its Governor Herbert G. Wellington, with a cut lip; its Vice President Allen Ledyard Lindley, badly shaken. Total damage, as estimated by Bumper Cannon: "Trivial." Last week damage suits were filed against Bumper Cannon charging negligent driving. Total damage, as estimated by Messrs. Simmons, Wellington & Lindley...
...coin held under the upper lip and a cold key dropped down the back to stop a nosebleed. If those fail, let the blood drip on an ax or knife and bury it in the ground...