Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jack Dempsey said good-by to two male guests at a party in the Dempsey apartment in Manhattan. The guests preferred to stay. Later, ambulance attendants treated one for a possible jaw fracture and black eye, the other for a scalp wound and a split lip. "I just slapped 'em around a bit," the ex-champ protested. No charges were brought...
...decided on the arm, and not the leg, in order to be spared the bother of shaving my new upper lip. We chose a piece of skin bounded on one side by a vaccination mark and on the other by the faint scar of what are now my upper lids." Thus in January 1941, back again in hospital four months after he had been brought down in flames, ex-Spitfire Fighter Hillary confronted his personal problem of post-war reconstruction. For Richard Hillary the war was over...
Four-thirty on the dot, and they poured into the Sacred Room--many for the last time, Vag thought, with his lip 'trembling. Four eventful years he had known them, or almost, from their first naive appearance in the Square which Recognizes Neither Birth Nor Breed. And now they doffed their childish honors and went forth into a stern intense world. The Vagabond perched himself on the back of the President's chair and listened to the reports. Words, words, words, words, so cheerful, so gallantly smutty, and so terribly inadequate. "To be at home in all lands and ages...
Just for a minute, Vag doubted; then he curled his lip and smiled scornfully at Inchball. ""Tis truth, with deference to the college," he quoted, "newspapers are the fount of knowledge. America can't win. America can't survive, without free and adequate reporting. The Crimson will appear tomorrow morning, and the next and the next and the next. We cannot guarantee to print notices received after 7 o'clock. Honeychile--let us join the others at the flowing bowl...
...Angeles County likes to talk about its orange-juice joints, tabernacles, oil wells and graving docks, keep a stiff and silent upper lip over its floods and earthquakes. Nevertheless, to deal with such occasional unpleasantnesses, it has a Major Disaster Committee. Last week, just before Japan loosed its bombs on Pearl Harbor, an expanded version of this committee was preparing to grapple with the bigger unpleasantness of war. Now that it has to go into action, it is expected to do all right. Civilian Defense Chief Fiorello H. LaGuardia rates its setup "the first and best in the nation...