Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fields, great, greying, polyp-nosed comedian, whose propensity for strong spirits is famed,* lay abed in Los Angeles' Queen of Angels Hospital, his nose in a sling, roundly denying reports that he had fallen flat on his face. Fields: "I never reach my face when I fall flat because I can't get past my nose. ... I was leaning too heavy on a cane getting into bed. The cane slipped and I fell. It hurts quite a bit, y'know, and I have to resort to medicinal mixtures...
...nose-grinding laymen, Eddington's vast conceptions were somehow vastly comforting. He once predicted that the expanding universe, "this ball of radio waves," would end in "one stupendous broadcast," but gave assurance that this event would not take place for perhaps 90 billion years. As for man, Eddington dismissed him as "one of the gruesome results" of a cosmic accident by which "some lumps of matter of the wrong size have occasionally been formed...
...professional baseball's one-man judge, jury and police force, Judge Landis had the power to cancel a World Series, banish an owner or manager, void any deal at any time. Truculent, profane, razor-sharp, he had only to look down his nose to make everybody hop. Most times they didn't like it, but his kind of tyrannical power was good for the game, and baseballers knew...
...storm center of Johnson's popularity seems to reside so firmly among girls below the age of consent that he is sometimes described as the voiceless Sinatra. Johnson's attitude towards this sudden, enormous popularity is rather baffled ("I can't pick my nose in public any more"). Equally, it is frank and heartfelt: "God," he says, "I hope it lasts." He understands his fans all the more sympathetically because he is still a celebrity hound himself. To meet Ronald Colman is still a breath-taking event...
...bring intellects together in an informal atmosphere. She is proud of having invented such games as Treasure Hunt and Scavenger Hunt, because of their psychological importance. Not unmindful of science (she once devoted most of a column to the fact that she has never had to blow her nose), she says: "Let's break them down scientifically. In the Treasure Hunt . . . intellectual men were paired off with great beauties, glamor with talent. In the course of the nights escapades anything could happen...