Word: nose
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years gave India her new Constitution then made "The Deal" with Mussolini and next placed the Royal Navy on a $525,000,000 Rearmament footing, last week showed King George and Queen Elizabeth the new type gas mask of which 45,000,000 are being provided. It encloses both nose and mouth, is fairly comfortable. His Majesty, pinching his own nose together jocularly with his fingers, spoke of how the World War type of mask used to pinch noses. "He spoke while demonstrating," reported an attendant, "and the strong nasal tones emitted rocked the royal party with laughter...
...youngest dancers (17), is by far its most exotic looking. As a dancer, she has not yet advanced beyond petit sujet (ranking in ballet hierarchy above a corypheé, below a grand sujet). Irina Baronova, now 18, is a brilliant and imaginative artist, still addicted to lengthening her snub nose with putty, Tatiana Riabouchinska, usually superb in pale, willowy roles, last week turned flamboyant in a ballet the troupe is doing for the first time in the U. S.-Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or. As the golden cock which warned silly King Dodon whenever disaster impended...
Typical are the above quotes from A Reporter At The Papal Court by Thomas B. Morgan (Longmans, Green, $3) published last week. As might be guessed, fact is that no other correspondent has ever combined such a keen American nose for newsy Papal intimacies with such a respectful Roman nose for bowing reverence to the Holy Apostolic Roman Catholic Church. It is a credit to the intelligence of the Holy See that Mr. Morgan was granted in 1929 what was then the first and is still the only exclusive interview ever given to a journalist by Pius...
...School faculty are pictured. Edward H. Warren '11, professor of Law, who, Life says, "is called 'The Bull' because he looks, walks, and bellows like one," was not snapped in the flesh, however. For Warren told the photographers that "if you bother me, I'll punch you on the nose." They took only a photograph of his portrait...
...burned very dim. A favorite with fashionable London, he had seen one book of his verses honored by the patronage of the pleasure-seeking Prince of Wales (later George IV). On a visit to the U. S. soon after, he came away from the fledgling republic holding his nose from the ''wretched'' hostelries. "barbarous" inhabitants, "squalling children, stinking Negroes"; . . . "every step I take not only reconciles, but endears to me, not only the excellencies but even the errors...