Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cultivate an open throat-unless a pupil has learned these fundamentals at least, no capable, conscientious vocal teacher will turn him loose on the musical market. A singer should make sure that his palate is arched, his tongue slightly grooved, the back wall of his throat visible, his upper lip free...
...kiss her in a conservatory till all hours. Tongues wagged her market-value down & down. The bloom off, nobody came near but drones. Monica peered, preened and pined to no avail. Her father disappointedly died, her old-maid friends grew more virginal every year, her mother kept a stiff lip stiffer. Things looked pretty dismal for Monica when the biggest drone of all finally settled on her. And the dreadful point of the story is that by that time Monica was really glad to have...
...increase his pace as his admirers expected. Blocking punches with his gloves and el bows, he drove Sharkey around the ring crowded him into the corners, smashed short punches to the side of his jaw. Shar key's left eye became swollen, discolored. Schmeling had a cut lip. In the ninth round then the tenth and the eleventh, it looked as though Sharkey were tiring, as though Schmeling had planned his fight well and might even be able to win as he pleased in the last rounds. Instead, Schmeling came out a shade more cautiously in the twelfth...
...voice and the Vagabond answered in the words of, as the newspapers have it, our Dr. Lowell that--"that institution is dead which does not change." "I know," said '28, "but the fountains, what about the fountains, will they play in the quadrangles?" Alas, no one knew, though the lip thatch lifted to impart the sad news that in the Yard he found no fountains. "Ah, the old order . . ." said '28, who felt he had a flair for words--he had been in Bio-Chemistry...
...back a little saddened and shocked, the Vagabond put away his note book; it was not his business to be either saddened or shocked. The lip thatch rose and fell with a slightly audible regularity...