Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nineteenth-Century America was uninhibited in joshing racial groups. Among its targets: Irishmen ("McCracken lost an upper lip, McCloskey lost an eye''), Germans ("Der nicest ting as neffer vas Iss valk dot Broadway down"), Jews ("Oh! what a show of noses, among the Sheenies in the sand"), Negroes ("A dark night, a nigger and a chicken, You can bet that they are mighty close friends"). Likewise open and to the point was it on the recurring theme of boy & girl. Instead of Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? It went to bat with...
...Maritime Commission was sick too, but the Commission kept a stiff upper lip. Existing ways, it insisted, are doing so much better than anyone had dared hope that the President's huge merchant-ship program will still be more than met. Right now, U.S. shipyards are producing six to eight ships per way per year v. a planned output of only four to four and a half ships. That would be fine except that still more ships are needed-more than ever...
...case of Fredric March was something else again. Silvery glory went to his head, to his upper lip, to his eyebrows, transformed him into the most reasonable facsimile of Samuel Langhorne Clemens this side of Mark Twain...
...staff was in early, cleared desks, sat down before the hour to wait for the first appearance of the new Old Man. He came in on the dot, slim, stern and businesslike. His staffers caught the gimlet look in his grey eyes, the rudimentary mustache masking a stubborn lip, the swatch of bright ribbons on his chest, the well-tailored uniform, the Corps of Engineers buttons* on the blouse...
Cinemactress Jinx Falkenburg started a drive, Lips for Liberty, at Columbia University, to promote the sale of war stamps. Her price to professors and students alike: 50? a lip...