Word: lipping
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...upper lip bristling with mustachios. (Page 10, column...
...only one person Aaron Burr ever cared for. She was his daughter, Theodosia. When she was 9, he had her study Greek and Philosophy; at 14 she entertained, in his absence, 14 gentlemen of renown at a dinner for Thayenlanegeo, Chief of the Six Nations. She curled her lip when, in 1804, the riff-raff of Manhattan sang...
...impunity. As she began to chew the second half, she felt something in her mouth that seemed to be moving, independent of the action of her teeth and tongue. She screamed, spat vehemently, alarming many nearby customers of the Horn & Hardart Co. When the object she ejected passed her lips it bit her, causing her lip to bleed. A curious insect -or reptile -about a quarter of an inch long, badly mangled by Miss Puree's teeth, lay upon the floor. Miss Puree declared that it was a lizard; the manager of the restaurant held that it was merely...
...Mass.), was behind but wearing well, pulling up. The frail one, Horace G. Orser, of George Washington High School (Manhattan), had fatigued himself cracking over an impregnable service for two hard sets. The third set drew out to deuce, to 6-all, to 7-all. Frail Horace bit his lip, clung to his nerve, made it 8-7, became champion. Score: 6-3, 6-4, 9-7. In the doubles, played afterwards, Henry found solace. He and Malcolm T. Hill, a schoolmate, defended their national junior indoor doubles championship against Horace and his partner, Kenneth Appel...
Down Ludgate Hill he marches, into Fleet Street, haunt of journalists. A Gentleman with a Duster spies him and makes these notes: "Tall— ;rigid-lean gray face-heavy-lidded eyes-of an almost Asian deadness-upper lip projects-stonelike- impassive-like a figure from the pages of Dostoievsky- like a poor Russian nobleman...