Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington's George Marshall, vacationing in Sun Valley, Idaho, saw brief action in the daily softball game. Getting a good grip on his lip (see cut), he took his cut from an open southpaw stance, grounded out to the pitcher in the first inning, then sat out the rest of the game...
...Miss C. Daley wanted to be a singer, but she had "a large mouth and protruding buckteeth." At her debut "she tried to pull down her upper lip to cover her teeth," got all her trills gummed up. Bawled a friend: "Open your mouth, and the audience will love you!" Today, openmouthed Cass Daley is "a top star in movies and radio. Other comedians are trying to imitate...
...Feast of the Gods has long been a puzzle as well as a masterpiece. The gods look more drunk than divine. Vesta, protector of virgins, lies dozing in one corner of the picture while Priapus fiddles with her skirt. A blowsy Ceres helps Apollo hoist cup to lip. Neptune is paired off with Gaea, who holds a quince -the symbol of marriage. Bacchus appears as a child, and his foster father Silenus looks more like a slender ascetic than a roly-poly satyr. Generations of art scholars have wondered...
Last week nervous Manager Leo ("The Lip") Durocher left the dugout and went back to directing his club from the first-base coaching line. He promptly got booed by the Brooklyn fans-those who were still going to games. What fans kept asking each other as they milled out of the exits: will Leo finish out the season on the first-base line? Or even in Brooklyn...
Bring 'Em Back Alive. In Syracuse, N.Y., Mayor Frank J. Costello* bit his lip and disclosed how things were at the zoo: the leopard had been there 20 years, and was secondhand at that; the jaguar had bitten off the leopard's tail; the lion not only had cataracts but was sharing his den with rabbits...