Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most columnists were either violently partisan like Dorothy Thompson or violently non-partisan like Hugh Johnson and Boake Carter. In the New York World-Telegram Harry Elmer Barnes called down a plague on both Europe's houses: "The lip service paid to democracy is only a fake frosting to obscure the underlying imperialism. . . . The current conflict ... is in reality a clash of rival imperialisms...
...nominate conservative candidates, or lip-service candidates, on a straddlebug platform, I personally, for my own self-respect and because of my long service to, and belief in, liberal democracy, will find it impossible to have any active part in such an unfortunate suicide of the old Democratic Party...
...even more vigorous. To hell with formality. He talks as men do in the locker room, and spices his profanity with the Bible, Shakespeare and law. He spills out figures, dates, technical facts, historical parallels. When the argument grows hot his eyes get hawklike and his stubborn upper lip stiffens. If an opponent wilts under his fire, Willkie is disgusted. He doesn't want the argument...
...Never Sets (Universal). A year ago his grateful country awarded the Order of the British Empire to shaggy, 75-year-old Britannic Cinemactor C. Aubrey Smith, and why not? His gruff charm, his unwavering personification of the stiff upper lip that always dresses for dinner, especially among savages, has made him an effective one-man propaganda bureau for the British virtues. The Sun Never Sets is another reminder that, as long as C. Aubrey Smith, O. B. E., remains above the horizon, the Union Jack will continue to fly at full staff over Hollywood. His main service in this cinema...
...fact. New literary blood was brought into the magazine in the form of contributions by Auden, Spender, et al. By January 1938, when the price was doubled from 1 s. to 2 s., circulation had climbed to 6,000. Readers of the current (April) issue read a stiff-upper-lip editorial announcing that it would be the last. The London Mercury was broke. Reason: A catastrophic slump in subscribers and advertisers due to "political and economic tempests of the last year...