Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bulb-nose again: "Because home always assumes a degree of exaggerated glamor when you're away from it. You can at least keep your illusions much better if you never go home...
...melee emerged the first hero of U.S. action in Europe, Captain Charles C. Kegelman of El Reno, Okla., who was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for cool daring. Kegelman's plane lost a propeller and a nose section at near-zero altitude. One motor caught fire and then the bomber scraped ground, damaging a wing and punching a hole in the fuselage. Kegelman regained control of his plane and flew on from the target area, only to be faced a few moments later by intense fire from a nearby anti-aircraft tower. He dove straight at the tower, silencing...
Paunchy, hook-nosed Léon Daudet spent most of his life in a seriocomic clamor for the return of the House of Bourbon-Orleans to the throne of France. His prose style was a far cry from the gentle whimsy which brought fame to his father, Alphonse Daudet (Tartarin de Tarascon, Lettres de Mon Moulin, etc.). Léon Daudet's editorials in L'Action were slapstick smacks in which he called his enemies female camels, unfecund sows, burst dogs, humpbacked cats, circumcised hermaphrodites. In a courtroom squabble Daudet once screamed "liar" at an opponent so long...
...stockmarket put on a strong-man act last week. Defying the worst flood of news since the fall of France (when equities nose-dived more than 30 points), the venerable Dow-Jones industrial averages rose $1.09 while the British were fleeing toward Alexandria, 76? more when Auchinleck began to halt the Rommel rush on Friday. Stocks went up $1.04 the day Hitler captured Sevastopol: 67? in the two days it took his African troops to capture Matr...
...very rich man, perhaps the richest in the Colonies. He was also a very simple man, a foxhunting Virginia plantation squire, "slow and awkward at introspection, which he regarded as something slightly sordid." He was a man of colossal dignity. He had thin red hair, outsize hands, feet, nose, jaw, and his outsize body was "skin wound on bones, with broad shoulders and broader hips." His face was deeply pockmarked. When he could not sleep, he used to reassure himself by stroking the scars. He was "a sickly man, and he had the sickly man's intimate knowledge...