Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anything else. His language may appear hard-boiled but it is really a carefully artificial dialect. His subjects, as carefully chosen as his style, are almost always illustrations of the same theme: the sportsman caught in an unsportingly tight place and, with various versions of the Hemingway stiff upper lip, taking it like a sportsman. The motto on his title-page states his creed more explicitly than before: "Unlike all other forms of lutte or combat the conditions are that the winner shall take nothing; neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notions of glory...
...however, she cannot always be content to raise a laugh. Though she cannot refrain from tearing her butterflies apart, sometimes she does it with a savagely sentimental reluctance. The stories in her latest collection illustrate both tendencies. Some of them: A horse-faced trained nurse keeps her long upper lip brightly firm while she takes contemptuous kindness as if it were not contempt. A cast-off inamorata soliloquizes in a taxi. Friends of the family are puzzled when a Perfect Couple, long married, split up for the valid but private reasons that he cannot stand her long fingernails...
...cases of cancer which have remained cured for five years or longer. Last week the surgeons reported a total of 24,448 five-year cures. Of the total 7,990 have been cancer of the womb, 8,051 cancer of the breast, 1,506 cancer of the mouth and lip, 1,124 cancer of the skin, 2,067 cancer of the colon and rectum. The knife, x-ray and radium effected these cures because the patients reported and their physicians recognized the cancers before much destruction had occurred. This was the point which the surgeons wanted impressed on everyone...
Dinny Charwell is keeping a stiff upper lip over her late disastrous love-affair with her Byronic poet (Galsworthy enthusiasts will remember with a shudder that he was also an apostate). This time it is her sister Clare who is in a mess. After 18 months of married life she has come back from Ceylon with the news that her able husband is a sadist. On the boat home young Tony Croom has fallen in love with her. Clare's husband follows her to England, tries to make her come back with him, and when he fails, warns...
...which would consist in social ownership, is the stimulation of our internal market and purchasing power. Certainly no more lethal a buffoonery than the back-to-the-farm movement could be contrived in the face of this emergency, and yet the melody lingers on many an inflamed and persuasive lip, and threatens to seduce us. The administration, in reviving production and purchasing power, has a difficult hand to play, and ought not to be reaching up its sleeve for the jokers; certainly cutting the market and enlarging the productive units at one time is a joker, and a lugubrious...