Word: faze
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...more impressive it would be a purely Fascist war. The commander in the field is none other than one of the original Quadrumvirs of the Fascist March on Rome, bearded, long-nosed General Emilio de Bono. Now aged 68, he is faced with problems of supply and transportation to faze any war college in Europe...
...Southern California, where engineering skill has long been at its highest, knew that no such movements had occurred here within the recollection of man. If so, our aqueduct across the San Andreas rift would have long since been destroyed. Even the San Francisco earthquake movement did not faze it. If such movements had occurred they would have been reflected in the astronomic computations from Mt. Wilson, in our land surveys, or by dis placements along our many highways and railways which cross fault lines...
George M. Cohan used to sing through his nose and glorify his country. Hodge talks through his nose, but he, too, glorifies the country--the rural regions of it. In this play he is, as usual, just a plain, easy-going country chap, who can faze a multi-millionaire with a shrug of the shoulder. That's probably why Boston likes William Hodge better than Broadway likes him. And that's why, in spite of a rather vapid vehicle, William Hodge will continue to talk through his nose at the Majestic for eight or ten weeks--unless influenza seizes...