Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Managing Editor Douglas DeVeny Martin answered his telephone, heard an irate subscriber shout something about a picture of Franklin Roosevelt wearing a Hitler mustache. Mystified, Editor Martin looked over that day's editions, found a wirephoto of the President with a vague shadow on his upper lip that might have been mistaken for a penciled imitation of the Nazi Führer's brush...
...days, Free Press wires were jammed with angry phone calls. Meanwhile, readers discovered fresh evidence of a plot to smear the President when next day the Free Press printed a picture of Wendell Willkie pointing to his lip. Cried suspicious callers: "See? He's showing that he doesn't wear a Hitler mustache!" Next morning the Free Press printed both pictures, along with a little piece about the phone calls and the heat...
...Love Came Back (Warner) is based on the supposition that if a group of down-at-lip jazzbabies suddenly began swinging such melodies as Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, a Chopin Nocturne, and Mendelssohn's violin Concerto in E Minor, their daring would astound and conquer the musical world. Such a feat bowls over Amelia Cornell (Olivia de Havilland), who has a violin scholarship in a conservatory and at first explains that she will hear no music that is not "classical." When Amelia in turn bowls over the conservatory's goatish old patron (Charles Winninger...
...elective in the school of human life. . . . The forces of evil which now threaten our very existence pursued their diabolic purposes with fierce and unflinching determination. . . . Contrast their remarkable steadiness of purpose and resolute will with the indecision, halfheartedness and hypocritical behavior of those who rendered profuse lip service to the cause of peace and democracy...
Last week U. S. cartoonists had an exciting new problem-Wendell Willkie. Their first task was to collect their wits. Then they squinted hard at Willkie's big, slightly stooped frame, his mastiff face (it would "batter" well, they observed), a mouth whose long, stubborn upper lip twinkled at the corners...