Word: busybodyness
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Anyone seeing a well-dressed lady step out of her limousine to feed biscuits to four dogs playing in a vacant lot, might think she was a queer old busybody but a kindly one. If the four dogs all fell sick that evening, three of them fatally, the witness might...
Sofia is even more of a busybody than Pietro. She not only tries to patch up her brother's marriage by arguing with Maria Luisa but makes a missionary journey to the mistress, Andreina. Andreina is beautiful but far from dumb. When she learns that Matteo's money...
One morning last week Ed. M. Pooley, the Press's managing editor, sent his candid cameraman to Houston's well-equipped Memorial Hospital to get some operation pictures. Robert Garland Jolly, the hospital's publicity-wise superintendent, gave Photographer Miller a warm welcome, clapped him into a...
The back page of the Tuesday "American" carries a cartoon depicting Uncle Same deaf to the entreaties of two sharp-nosed individuals labelled conspicuously "Meddler" and "Busybody". Page 5 of the same issue prints the headline "Attack on constitution taught Harvard students" There follows a garbled but strong criticism, of...
Primitive people from time immemorial have eaten the hearts, livers and testicles of ferocious beasts and valorous enemies. Believers in sympathetic magic, they sought thus to acquire strength and bravery. Scientific minds saw no sense to this until about 75 years ago Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard (1817-94...