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...greatest Lithuanian patriots of all time. For 20 years he worked for Lithuanian nationalism and independence against the oppression of Tsarist Russia. A diminutive man, dark, with narrow, beady eyes, a stubby goatee spread over his chin and a bushy, drooping moustache hanging orderly from his upper lip, he is an excellent, forceful speaker, sound, indurate, potent...
...John Roach Straton (loud-speaking Fundamentalist) told his Manhattan congregation: "As one I rejoice that Lindbergh did not step out of his plane on the fields of France with a cigaret hanging from the southwestern segment of his lip or a liquor breath upon which the President of the French Republic might have hung...
...make a woman beautiful is to pierce a hole through the flesh of her lower lip and insert a flat wooden plug. Do the same with the upper lip, and gradually insert larger and larger plugs. At last two wooden discs as large as soup plates, each edged with stretched lip, will hang down from the beautified face, almost prevent speech, and render eating extremely difficult. Complete the beautification by filing the teeth to sharp points and hanging a ring in the nose. Then, in the French Colony of Senegal, West Africa, the woman so adorned may expect to command...
...Mediterranean; England and France with new interests and possessions, are naturally less ready than ever to permit the growth of a common rival, or to allow their own possessions to slip from their grasp in the name of any such principle as "self-determination," a principle to which lip service is considered sufficient...
...dean's desk in Nassau Hall, Princeton University, sits a slightly bald, slightly stooped, slow- spoken gentleman whose grey eye twinkles at a witticism in the French literature he knows so thoroughly, quite as often as his firm lip stiffens to pronounce upon matters of policy and discipline-Dean Christian Gauss...