Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Half a Loaf. In Chicago, M. J. Lovell, director of the National Association of Shirt and Pajama Manufacturers, bit his' lip and reported that pajama sales average only half a pajama per man per year - a situation he described as "inadequate...
...Back at the same old stand next spring after a year's suspension will be Leo ("The Lip") Durocher as the colorful manager...
...blizzard keened over the Rockies. At Toltec Gorge in the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado, as a Denver & Rio Grande Western passenger train wound through the night, an avalanche of snow hurtled down, picked the last three cars off their narrow-gauge track and carried them over the lip of the precipice. One car went down 30 feet, the other two some 400 (see cut). But all 14 occupants miraculously came out alive. Another snow avalanche, in Difficult Creek Canyon, near Aspen, Colo., killed Skier Alexander McFadden, socialite Memphis cotton manufacturer...
...sensationalism, France Dimanche keeps a certain perspective. It rarely runs rape stories. They are all right for prudish U.S. and British papers, Corre thinks, but the "sexually enlightened" French are uninterested in such sordid affairs unless they have an amusing twist. His curled-lip philosophy of journalism: "A newspaper is scandalous if it doesn't print scandal...
...calling regularly at the teahouse. For long evenings he sat cross-legged and entranced while Yuki taught him the ritual of tea-drinking and a fascinating game in which two players vie for a paper hoop by trying to catch it on paper hooks held under the lower lip. In no time the young American was begging O-Yuki to marry...