Word: lipping
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...there are. I know several men who can do the Stare better than I. My Stare has never been what a should be. I can keep my eyes glassy, Yes, I can even do better than most Careful Greeters that exquisite expression of the thin, suddenly drawn-back lip. What was wrong I never suspected, but now--A professional secret, mustn't well. Honor bright...
...weakness of category. You see, some Careful Greeters don't distinguish between the Cut and the Stare. I do. It may be splitting hairs, but I think there is a place for the Cut, the simple Stare, the Stare with modified eye-roll, and the Stare with lip movement. So that while I have sought variety, others have been content to remain in the simpler paradigms of greeting, and still use the common, or old-fashioned Stare on all occasions...
...room on wheels. She is not married but plots to get other people married. When Lindbergh visited Los Angeles, she was the only cinema star who entertained him. At parties she gives imitations of Lillian Gish (in suspense), Jetta Goudal (with horsehair), the Prince of Wales (fatigued), Mae Murray (lip) and herself. Two years ago, becoming 30, she turned comedian...
...soaring contralto failed to please. Perhaps the trouble was her accent. Since she is a woman the Lower Classes did not criticize her personally; but several Gallery Gods bawled that Gor' blymy her assistant evangelist didn't sing so an Englishman could understand him! Biting her lip and pink with vexation, Aimee McPherson shrilled: "He isn't an American at all! He lives in London. He's an Irishman!!" Even after this explanation and much powerful preaching, however, the audience of 10,000 yielded only 40 converts, who rushed to the Four Square Pulpit and cast...
...experimental period, painful to subject and clinician, will continue until cinemactors have been soundly trained, and technique (to eliminate such faults as improperly timed lip-moving and speech) has been developed...