Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waiting by botanists with 400 spectators flattening their noses against the greenhouse glass, a fleshy spathe began to unfurl from the spadix and spread out in a bell-shaped bloom. The bell was greenish yellow outside, warm maroon inside. At full bloom the circumference of the bell's lip was 12 ft. 10 in. By this time the plant had begun in earnest to emit its characteristic odor-a sickening carrion stench...
...Memphis, Tenn., Golfer Harvey Thompson solemnly related that after his putt had stopped on the cup's lip, his ball tumbled in when a big fly landed...
Grey curtains of rain trailed over the slates and chimney pots of London as the night-before-Coronation fell. Under the square miles of rooftops, in the slums and swank mansions, in suburban villas and the fine hotels, "Coronation" was the word most often on every lip as Greater London's 8,000,000 inhabitants, plus at least 1,500,000 visitors from the provinces, from the Dominions and colonies, from the U. S. and from every country in Europe, Asia, South America, even from the larger States of India and tribes of British Africa, all thought and spoke...
Loosely adapted from Watters & Hopkins' play, Burlesque, which ran on Broadway in 1927, Swing High, Swing Low somehow fails to give the spectacle of a wind instrument expert keeping a stiff upper-lip the emotional intensity which it no doubt deserves. Songs like Panamania and I Hear a Call to Arms, by Al Siegel and Sam Coslow, are appealing but hardly likely to be rated as classics by addicts of swing music. Vastly over-ballyhooed by Paramount, the picture's chief virtues are providing pretty Carole Lombard with a few comedy lines almost up to the standard...
Between applications of lip rouge, the Blonde Bombshell, who, by the way, is quite unbombshellish off the stage, bewailed lack of pleasure in which to ride-horseback, and complained about being rushed in her meals. She likes to cat butter than almost anything else. "I don't see any sense in this dieting. When I am hungry, I like to east," Svelie, not to say conspicuous, lines testified that her figure thrived on her distrust of dieticians...