Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pacific. One of them, played by Hugh Beaumont, is the straight man; there's nothing wrong with him. William Bendix, who has never turned in a bum performance, does a beautiful job as the ex-gunner who has a steel plate in his head and isn't taking any lip from anyone. The big boy is Johnny, played by Alan Ladd. His wife hadn't bothered to send him a "Dear John" letter, so he doesn't know that she's been playing around with a night club operator in his absence. When he does find out, he leaves...
...back of Oakland, where they tried out the hoedowns, marches and blues of old New Orleans until dawn. By 1939 Waiters had his own twelve-piece band, playing the accepted mixture of sweet and swing. Soon they gave up playing regular ballroom dates. Says Walters: "It was ruining my lip, having to play soft. I wanted a jazz band or nothing...
...sweet little face with the upper lip lifted away from the lower in a kind of child-like perplexity, and all sorts of soft thick yellow hair tumbling down. She was all small and white, with the hands of a baby, and little baby legs and feet. But what she had that broke my heart were big staring blue eyes-the amazed eyes of a scared little girl in a crazy and ferocious world...
...rivet. With this pressed firmly on his neck he stroked the picture once more. Suddenly, as if on a movie screen, the lost cousin appeared, dressed in a faded uniform and strolling down a grassy slope. "Where are you?" shouted Antonio. The cousin stopped, turned and silently moved his lips. Antonio lip-read his words: "In Nairobi, fed up with prison...
Kicks & Blackjacks. "The Lip" tightened noticeably as pudgy, Dodger-hating ex-Serviceman John Christian, 23 (a Brooklyn resident in address only), put forth his Brooklyn-shaking testimony. He said that after a night game on June 9, 1945, Durocher and Joe Moore, an Ebbets Field policeman, had beaten him with fists and a blackjack, and broken his jaw so badly that it had to be wired together. As further evidence, the Assistant D.A. said that Durocher had paid Christian $6,750 to settle out of court...