Word: lipping
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Sounds are seen and not heard by many of those who last week in Manhattan attended the eleventh annual conference of the American Federation of Organizations for the Hard of Hearing. If they cannot hear spoken words they can see them by reading the speaker's lips. But the lip-reader's vocabulary must contain the words spoken him. No one can read from another's lips words he does not know.* Some two dozen lip-readers held a tournament at the conference. But because the lip, like the hand, can be quicker than the eye, none made perfect scores...
...Until lip-readers complained, silent cinemactors were wont to mouth irrelevancies, vulgarities, even Hollywood obscenities before the camera...
...lighted cigar on a mahogany side table. An entire bottle of ginger ale had been prankishly poured on a beautiful chair upholstered in brocaded silk. An arm had been chipped from a bit of statuary Mme Clore had brought from Italy. A moustache had been pencilled on the lip of her late husband's oil portrait. Seven glasses were broken. Three spoons were missing. The second maid had been seduced. The cook had quit. "The press had been entertained...
Schmeling hit Sharkey in the mouth, mashed his lip against a tooth so that it bled. Sharkey spat the blood out contemptuously, stabbed Schmeling with long lefts, shook him with short rights. In the next round Schmeling, clearly outboxed and looking much smaller than Sharkey (he was 9 Ib. lighter) landed less often. Sharkey hit him hard, punching from every angle. Repeatedly Schmeling set himself to throw his only effective punch, a short, straight right to the jaw. Repeatedly Sharkey threw him off balance, mixed him up, hurt him. In the third round Sharkey hit him hard four times...
Authors Ernst & Lorentz list shots and captions liable to be cut: portrayal of crime or suicide; display of dangerous weapons; cruelty, mean or mischievous; capital punishment; gambling; profanity, lip or title; drinking; narcotics; sex, suggestiveness or overpassionate love making; nudity and indecent exposure; vulgar dancing; improper reference to women...