Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifty years ago when Gaishi Nagaoka was a young officer at the Military Staff College in Tokyo what he had on his upper lip was just a mustache, not to be mentioned in the same breath with the vast and magnificent brush of His Majesty Umberto I, King of Italy. Time passed. Umberto died. Gaishi Nagaoka became a Major, then a Colonel, then a General and his mustache grew & grew. By the time he retired from active service in 1915 to become the smiling white-winged father of Japanese aviation it was no longer a mustache but a religion...
...foster-father, George Arliss is to be preferred to Maurice Chevalier (see above) on several counts. Instead of sticking out his under lip and singing, he pulls down his upper lip and speaks, in a dry tone, with perfect diction. Chevalier's picture emphasizes the good effects of dissipation; the lesson in the Arliss cinema is about the advantages of sobriety and the respect which children owe their elders. The Working Man, like most Arliss vehicles. has charm as well as respectability; if Mr. Arliss is too definitely of the old school. Bette Davis is certainly of a different...
...praiseworthy is the government of France, which performed lip service to the League of Nations narcotics limitation conventions of 1925 and 1931 and passed laws prohibiting cultivation, manufacture or transportation of hashish (Indian hemp) in French Syria. But nothing was said about possession. Syrians can and frequently do turn their mud-walled houses into warehouses for smuggled dope...
Beauty To International Beauty Shop Owners convening in Manhattan were exhibited these detachable gadgets: colored fingernails which can be shaped & filed; gold-plated nose-shapers, worn inside, to make straight noses saucy; lip covers 1 100,000th of an inch thick; courtplaster tacks to pin back jutting ears; hats with curls of real hair dangling from the back...
Hero of the beer bill's prompt passage by the House was chunky Representative Thomas Henry Cullen from a tough waterfront district in Brooklyn. A square-faced, hard-boiled Democrat, with a lower lip like Maurice Chevalier's, he is the House's Assistant Majority Leader. In disgrace because of his stand against the President's economy bill fortnight ago, he retrieved some of his lost prestige by sponsoring the Administration's beer bill on the floor. By amending the Volstead Act the measure authorized beer of 3.2% alcoholic content by weight, imposed...