Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lip Reader...
Lest Death come as it etc., let TIME stop annoying this lip reader with nonfish, non-fowl hybrids that do not allow the normal pronunciation of the joined words. RadiOrating may pass but radiorator reads as raydiORator or RADIOraytor; omnibusiness may be OMNIBUSeeness or omniBIZiness...
...uncle turned to him with a look approaching condescension and a tone faintly suggestive of superior indifference, "YOU went to Yale? My, my, I am not sure if that is an insult to you or one to Yale!" His cousin was biting his lip to make his retort sharper when the Vagabond spoke: "Gentlemen, I must stop here a minute to fetch my girl...
Boyer plays the Little Corporal in the manner every actor under five feet ten has always dreamt of playing him. He pulls his forelock down, sticks out his upper lip, and shows a paunch (artificial). Magnificently he drives into Poland where, changing horses at a village near Marie's estate, he gets his first look at her. Count Walewski (Henry Stephenson) does not much care for the plan that his wife trade on the Emperor's interest to help Poland, but she tries it anyhow. When she interrupts Napoleon's ardors with a patriotic supplication, the Emperor...
...time. Upon their arrival in Cambridge Town they rapidly become steeped in the notorious Harvard haughtiness--they never forget that they are the sons of the oldest and richest university in these almost United States. They forget that they were raised on corn bread and pot likker in East Lip, Ark., and go Beacon Street with almost incredible rapidity--usually because they are nearly all put on the Boston deb lists. A youth who has been at Harvard a few months Knows All, because he can toss off Ultimate on the great names and minds to which he has been...