Word: nez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hulking Jesse Jones, 68, 6 ft. 3, 220 lb., grabbed Meyer's coat lapels, shook him like an angry bear. Meyer's pince-nez shattered on the floor. Then Meyer, 66, 5 ft. 10, 186½lb., who took boxing lessons for two years from Heavyweight Champion James J. Corbett, came up with a haymaker aimed straight at the Jones jaw. It missed-and other guests pulled the two heavyweights apart...
...Anybody who sits on Cape Gris Nez is seven minutes by air and an hour and a half by sea from England, and there are a lot of Germans still sitting around Cape Gris Nez. . . . We must keep enough here to make sure that the enemy cannot destroy or seriously damage what is, after all, the powerhouse of world resistance to the German bid for world domination...
...minutes Admiral Nomura worked his blandishments on the President, while Secretary of State Cordell Hull fingered his pince-nez ribbon. When the Admiral emerged, he flashed a smile at reporters, twirled a grey fedora in his brown hands. Then he stepped into his limousine...
...Times office boy came to the door, handed a torn-off news-ticker scrap to a Secret Service guard. The guard delivered the scrap to Times Bureau Chief Arthur Krock. Pundit Krock glanced at it, reached the scrap up to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who adjusted his pince-nez, read that Soviet Russia and Yugoslavia signed a non-aggression pact. Impassively he handed the news to Franklin Roosevelt...
...reach the Waldorf, what with the day's greetings to give and receive. Each morning he presented the Waldorf counter-girl with an apple, for which bribe he had his soft-boiled eggs brought to his table by a bus-boy. After breakfast he sat there, donned pince-nez, and scoured the Herald, pausing now and then to extract a paragraph with his pen-knife. About 9:15 he went for a walk, an eternal walk, up and down, around, through the Yard, constantly smoking but never inhaling, smiling, chatting, examining the same buildings and paths, finding something...