Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dirty brown felt hat pulled over his ears, and commanded: "Eeh, Du! Komm!" The German froze, casting a terrified glance over his shoulder at the frightened stream of men & women who were trying not to see or hear. The Russian waved his Tommy gun and curled his lip. "Komm!" He pushed his petrified recruit roughly into the gutter...
...came without warning, Commissioner Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler's first decisive action in two years as baseball's $50,000-a-year czar. Leo The Lip, struck almost silent, let out only two words, "For what...
...press arrived. Sportswriters, some of whom had no love for The Lip, shook hands with him condolingly. Said one: ''Durocher must have felt like a guy attending his own funeral...
...noisy one) in that fight, Chandler had to convict him of more. So he dragged up the "accumulated unpleasant incidents" Durocher had been involved in (TIME, April 14). All of these had happened before the spring season began. Said the New York Times's Columnist Arthur Daley: "The Lip is in a comparable position to the chap hauled into traffic court for driving through a red light and then being sentenced to the electric chair. If this is the Chandler type of justice, then the club owners could make a good investment for themselves by buying up the remainder...
There was anguish in Brooklyn; the betting odds on the Dodgers' pennant chances lengthened. The Harvard Crimson wanted Leo hired as assistant coach of Harvard's baseball team. A Brooklyn Congregational Church group petitioned Chandler to reinstate Durocher. Though there were some who thought The Lip had long been asking for trouble, sportswriters generally agreed that Durocher had been hit with a beanball. Said the New York Herald Tribune's Sports Editor Stanley Woodward: "Knowing he was under fire for timidity, Chandler took refuge in overaction . . . .the most colossal piece of injustice and bravado yet perpetrated...