Word: nose
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course, Mr. Kline is too much the professional newspaper man to admit that a nose for news may be cultivated where no such organ exists. While he does not enthuse over the schools of journalism, at the same time he does not decry their value as training grounds for future editors. He believes that any training that will quicken a man's faculties or make him expert in some field will be of service to him in newspaper work. He approves school-taught reporters, accordingly...
...Nose for News" Essential...
...Newton's laws of motion, had never before tried the effect of willow on horse-hide, rose to the occasion and mashed the pill into a pulp. The result,--six runs in the first inning and seven more in the course of the game, while the visitors could barely nose out ten tallies. The features of the contest were Gilday's screaming homer to left, and an all-but-double-play, Anderson to Gilday, which was marred only by umpire Brown's calling the runner safe at second...
...Friends" tells of a young clerk with an "almost Apollic hand," "a thin nose," a "wide nare," and "unplumbed eyes," who reluctantly wins the friendship of a fellow clerk--and proves to be a girl (as the clever reader has discovered some months in advance of the hero). The story lacks novelty, probability and power. "The Process" appears to be just such a tale as no young man should try to tell, a tale outside the author's experience and beyond the present reach of his imagination. The style is a little too deliberately jaunty...
...course of yesterday's practice Coach Sexton's nose was broken by the deceptive bounce of a ground ball...