Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constitutional right of free choice in joining or not joining a union," and what seemed like a reply by Franklin Roosevelt: ". . . We shall hold steadfastly to every advance gained and not permit present safeguards to be whittled away by yielding to the specious arguments of those whose lip service to labor is loud and eloquent before election, but whose ears are deaf to all appeals to justice the rest of the time...
...leave his ship without a local Briton as escort. Just as amazing was the official reason: Uruguayan maidens had become so immodestly pro-Allied that the honest British tars were embarrassed;* wherever they went they were greeted with effusive hugs and left covered with smears of sticky lip rouge. As the practice grew fashionable, local belles vied for the honor of kissing the most sailors, depositing the most makeup...
...smug definition of Europe's war. It is a "conflict of two civilizations and of two mysticisms-that of gold or liberal capitalism, which is that of America, and that of the service of the State and of labor, which is that of Nazi Germany." Still paying lip service to gold and liberal capitalism, the men of Vichy indicated through their actions last week which "mysticism" Petain France endorsed. "Germany invites us to reconstruct Europe," wrote Rightist Deputy Fernand-Laurent in Le Jour. "I do not hesitate to say that to the extent that French interests, our independence...
...they also met and listened to the Army's No. 1 soldier, General George Catlett Marshall. What they saw was a rangy, lean (182 Ib.) six-footer in negligently neat mufti, a field soldier with reflective blue eyes, a short, pugnacious nose, broad, humorous mouth, a stubborn upper lip. What they heard was a dry, impersonal voice, setting out with simple precision the necessities of the U. S.'s No. 1 modern military crisis, the work that has to be done to meet...
...toward enlightening the people, Eleanor Roosevelt last week permitted herself to be smeared with grease paint, mascara, lip rouge. Next month, U. S. movie-goers will see their First Lady in the British-made, anti-Nazi film, Pastor Hall, whose American rights Son Jimmy has bought. In her prologue. Actress Roosevelt told why she approved the film...