Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your lucid narrative report [TIME, Feb. 4] of the events leading up to the resignation of Dr. Clarence Cook Little you appear to make one statement that can hardly be justified, in view of your accustomed nose for facts...
...Roberts is not a master of vituperation; he is certainly no artist at caricature. He is merely a good reporter with a sure nose for what will amuse the Saturday Post reading public, and a genius for writing syncopated prose what catches their attention...
Eight years separated the births of Dwight Locke Wilbur's boys, Curtis Dwight and Ray Lyman?eight Iowa years during which the residents of little Boonesboro could foresee that Curtis Dwight Wilbur would grow to be a tall man with large hands, feet, ears and nose. Later, as younger Ray Lyman Wilbur grew up they could see that he, too, would be the "string bean" type. It also became apparent that, despite the years separating them, there was to be fraternal rivalry between the Wilbur boys for position in the world and prestige among...
...Masaryk. Everyone is conscious of Foreign Minister Dr. Eduard Benes. But only the most alert can name the "Mystery Man" who has been Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia during the past six years. Beholding him one first notes his extraordinary pallor, then the round bald head, large mouth, short wide nose, piercing eyes, and dark overhanging brows. Such is Antonin Svehla...
...principle may be extended to the art of music, in which tonal variations are evanescent. Great virtuosi, who know how to mingle murmurous, tinkling and strident sounds, might be said to possess the "Great Ear." Master perfumers presumably have the "Great Nose...