Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your article on "The Lip" was great, and for us on the West Coast, who don't get much chance to see the Dodgers in action, it was very educational...
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After absorbing the information, I am inclined to believe Leo is getting a raw deal.... The Lip is a tough guy on the field because he wants to win. He's being paid to have a winning ball club and he earns his salary. The kids think him a great guy because he's the type of a fellow who can let important things wait in order to answer questions or help some kid with his baseball problem...
...Brooklyn surprise box. First, a last-minute switch nudged aging Arky Vaughan off third base, and gave the job to scrawny John ("Spider") Jorgensen; the rookie from Montreal batted in six runs in one game. Then Rickey announced that soft-spoken Burt Shotton, 62, would succeed exile Leo ("The Lip") Durocher as manager of the Dodgers...
James McNeill Whistler was really two people. He was a pugnacious little dandy in a wide-brimmed, flat hat, who sported a tuft of beard under his lip and tugged at it gently when he was thinking up malicious dodges to discomfit his enemies. Whistler fought the world from the day he was kicked out of West Point for flunking chemistry. ("Had silicon been a gas,'' he is reported to have said, "I would have been a major general.") Between rounds, Whistler became instead an immensely solemn, self-absorbed artist, who turned his friends and the London...