Word: lipping
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...gibbous moon, while they scurry over city roofs at night, or swing down a silk rope-ladder to their victim's window. They are carried up hotel elevators in packing cases; they train cobras to crawl through the speaking-tubes of limousines and bite their enemies on the lip; but the type of crime which entertains them most is the far simpler business of entering some all-night chop-suey restaurant, firing six or seven shots, and departing, while the proprietor splutters out his life upon the greasy floor. Of this daring feat no tongman seems to tire...
Next day she had the pleasure of seeing her picture in The New York Times?romanesque nose, sagging eyes, together with the skinny neck and long horselike upper lip which are so often the characteristics of the more unfortunate female members of the British nobility. She saw herself described as "a pretty young woman." The Daily News (for gum-chewers) went even farther afield...
...skinny neck and long horselike upper lip...
...they stood on the first tee waiting to begin the afternoon round of their match, a Western Union messenger dashed up with a yellow envelope for Serrick. He opened it, turned pale, then bit his lip and shoved the missive into his pocket. He got into trouble on his drives, he overputted, topped his approaches. Later in the day, with McAuliffe 5 up, he spied his mother in the gallery. "They said you were sick," he whispered. The crumpled telegram read : MOTHER DANGEROUSLY ILL COME AT ONCE. McAuliffe, who did not need, as a matter of fact, the efforts...
...requesting Congress to dissolve the Shipping Board. For long the Administration has regarded the Board as ineffective, muddling, unbusinesslike, and has wished to transfer control of the Government's fleet to the Emergency Fleet Corporation. The Board has steadily fought to retain its powers, seeking by lip service to the President to convince Congress that there was no need to have it shorn of its powers. Sooner or later, say observers, there will be a showdown...