Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year, but he sweats like a stool pigeon for it-twelve hours a day, six days a week.* Even off the air, Bell sounds and looks like a hood just back from escort duty on a one-way ride. With his sneering voice goes a curling lip (with black, headwaiter mustache to match) and a martini-cold eye. But the yegg is just a softie under his shell...
With alarm, the Daily Mail's Correspondent G. Ward Price reported that the horrid word "spiv" was "on every lip." He thought that it had something to do with people observed carrying large sums of cash, presumably to dodge taxes. A gentleman sardonically signing himself Sam Johnson asked in the Daily Telegraph: "Is 'spiv' . . . an abbreviation; if so, of what? Is it an importation; if so, from whence? Or is it perchance compounded from initials-'Social Parasites in Vehicles' . . . or the 'Society for the Promotion of Illegal Ventures...
When Rocky Graziano and Tony Zale meet in the ring, bloodthirsty fight fans get what they pay for. Before knocking out Rocky last fall, Middleweight Champion Zale acquired a cut lip, red welts around both eyes, a buzzing head, a chipped thumb bone and such weak knees that his handlers had to hold him up in the shower. What Tony and Rocky did to each other in last week's return bout, to the loud delight of 18,547 fans, was something to behold...
...Larry Vinson had eliminated five rivals. His backspin was working fine, he drew his marble nicely, cleaned out the ring time after time in one turn. But on the last day, Larry's rabbit's foot failed just when he needed it most. He bit his lip, said nothing, shed not a tear...
...cutters, who do not like to invite income-tax trouble for their informal business, tend to keep a tight lip about their profits. But a man like Dupree may gross as much as $40,000 between March and September 15. Working ten hours a day, five days a week (with two days out for traveling or bad weather), Dupree's caravan will cut 80 to 100 acres a day, at $3 and up an acre plus fees for haulage to elevators...