Word: lipping
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...succeeding ones, Petrolle chased McLarnin round the ring, landed accurate, hard left hooks, floored him twice in the fourth round, bashed his vainglorious, boyish face into a bloody muddle. McLarnin, half conscious, streaked with blood that oozed from his eyes, his nose and a cut in his lower lip, fought back with courage. He won the ninth round and staggered through the tenth somehow. Winner Petrolle may soon be matched with Lightweight Champion Tony Canzoneri, to whom recently-before Canzoneri won his title-he gave a hearty drubbing...
...Author. For some months Author Bennett acted as house-detective for the Savoy Hotel, spying on the life of his monstrous love. Fat. sloppy-looking, with prominent teeth, hanging lower lip, a wave of hair, droopy eyes, Arnold Bennett would have been more conspicuous, not so well cast, as a maitre d'hotel...
...that it has sparkle and distinction is almost entirely attributable to blithe, blonde, beauteous Jeanne Aubert, the French comedienne whose husband (Packer Nelson Morris of Chicago) lately sought to enjoin her from taking part in theatricals. Audiences were delighted with her genuine Franco-American accent,* her thoroughgoing naughtiness, her lip-twisting method of vocal delivery -first brought to fame when she popularized the Parisian songlet Si Tu Vois Ma Tante...
...belated dedication is not necessarily a reflection upon the dead but a dedication grudgingly extended is a compliment neither to the dead nor to those who participate. . . . Now the American people have never been swayed by the lip of libel or the tongue of slander. . . . The foam of falsehood will soon cease to scare the timid or ambitious. . . . It would cheapen the memory of a man, most deserving, to importune anybody to do his memory a simple justice."* The association re-elected its officers: Calvin Coolidge, honorary president; one-time Senator Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, president; Secretary...
...Angeles may have its Aimee Semple McPherson, and it may have its Bob Shuler, and it may have a lot of other disagreeable personages and things, through which rank publicity gains its way into lip-licking scandal sheets, but why the stab about Gaylord Wilshire in your issue...