Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jimmy Durante, now 50 and some 15 years away from his nightclubbing prime, left Hollywood with his nose-that-walks-like-a-yam and made his second smashing nightclub comeback in nine months-like the first, at Manhattan's Copacabana...
Eleanor Roosevelt explained a nose-rubbing picture widely published in U.S. papers. She said that the head Maori guide in New Zealand, "a fine-looking woman" named Ragni, had asked permission to greet her "as we greet all distinguished visitors." Mrs. Roosevelt added that when she was a little girl her father "used to say, 'Let's have a Chinese kiss,' and then we would rub noses. ... I was very glad my father had taught me to rub noses properly...
...ebircsbus!" A third contained "a beautiful lady whose hands were bound to the seat, while, seated opposite her, was a man holding a revolver." A fourth contained a row of Nebraska politicians "expectorating over the railing." The captain of a fifth airship was said to have held his nose as he soared over the state capitol...
...paid much attention to his aches and pains on that joyous ride home from Washington Sunday night, except maybe Frank Liebel, an end, whose nose was in a sling. New York Heraid-Tribune...
Goggling eyeglasses frame a swollen nose section above the round exhaust valve (see cut). The canister of protective chemicals is attached directly to the facepiece, eliminating the hose. Cocked on the left cheek, the canister is well out of the way, allows easier use of the rifle...