Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word to their friends in Congress to support Sam's substitute. They were even ready to accept the injunction if they could get rid of most of the Taft-Hartley Act. That is, the majority of them were. John Lewis, who had had to pay through the nose for defying injunctions, was dead set against any compromise...
Like lyric writing (for some 50 unsung songs), radio (where, after five failures, his current show-Wed. 9 p.m. E.D.T., ABC-is fattening on his TV glory), and movies (for which a plastic surgeon bobbed his nose in 1939), the theater is one of Milton's gnawing frustrations. This season, while already riding high in TV, he tried unsuccessfully to get a supporting role in South Pacific. But producers are now wooing him instead...
...gags into the man. He also helped salvage an actress from alcoholism, wrote an act for her, paid for its musical arrangements, made the bookings and appeared with her on the early engagements. He is easily approachable to down-&-outers, and generous with gifts. Among his unusual presents: plastic-nose operations just like his own for his secretary and the head of his fan club...
Just as the Magdalena neared famed Sugar Loaf, her deck plates began to buckle. Captain Lee dropped anchor, for the second time gave the abandon-ship order. Then, with a rending sound like the falling of a giant tree, the ship broke in two, her nose rising crazily...
...only recorded Charles I's tall hunting stories but later listened to Cromwell declaiming at dinner that in all England Devon husbandry was best. When Charles II came home from exile, Aubrey was on hand again, recording the occasion when a Mr. Evans, who had "a fungous nose . . . kissed the King's hand and rubbed his nose with it, which disturbed the King, but cured [Mr. Evans...