Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond King (Paramount). Francois Villon was a lean, bony, shrivelled man, with a sharp dark face and an upper lip pulled into permanent irony by a dagger slash he got one night outside the church of St. Benoit-le-Bientourne. He made an indifferent living in the Paris underworld of the 15th Century, and there is evidence that he served several jail terms, committed at least one murder, suffered from venereal disease, and wrote, in underworld slang, the best French verse of his time. Not much of what scholars have found out about the real Villon is preserved in this...
Mencken thinks polytheism still rears its many heads. "The God of the Episcopalians is an elderly British peer, courtly in manner, somewhat beefy, and, in New York, vaguely Jewish. The God of the Mormons shaves his upper lip, and believes in large families and a protective tariff. The God of the Methodists is an agent pro-vacateur, forever fingering his pad of blank warrants. The God of the Baptists is amphibious, and, in some of his aspects, almost identical with the Neptune of the Greeks...
...induce people to join the Quakers. . . . People should take full responsibility, after thought and discussion, for their own truth and right. . . . The trend of our time is scientific. . . . The great organized churches are insisting on at least formal acceptance of a lot of medieval superstitions . . . are giving only lip service to the ideals of humility, simplicity and friendliness which are characteristic of Jesus. . . . Here and there one finds an exception where a courageous leader, such as Harry Emerson Fosdick, John Haynes Holmes or Rabbi Wise takes a public stand and rallies a group of like-minded folk about...