Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herbert Bayard Swope, retired Executive Editor of the New York World, and his wife, sued one James Reynolds of Yonkers, N. Y., for $100,000 and $75,000 damages respectively. In 1927 the Reynolds car ran into the Swope car, injuring Mr. Swope's nose, cutting Mrs, Swope's face, making them both nervous ever since. Testifying to the speed they were going, Colyumist Heywood Campbell Broun, who was riding to dinner with the Swopes, said: "When my wife [Ruth Hale] goes over 30 miles an hour I tell her to pull down." Testifying as to whether he had feared...
...Philip Stephanovitch . . . alighted with dignity from the sledge, raised his hat, bowed unsteadily in all directions and uttered through his nose a haughty condescending sound-something halfway between 'I am very pleased' and 'Please be seated'-and immediately began to talk such inexplicable rubbish about reconnoitring the village, the old Sabakin, the swindling representative, the bloody Tsar Nicholas, Isabella and other things, that the women were absolutely tongue-tied with fright and respect, and the driver exclaimed in a drunken voice, 'Gee up,' and clapped his arms across his chest with sheer delight...
...Hamilton factory in Milwaukee, Mr. Johnson's co-worker Victor Allison, of West Palm Beach, set the vanes twirling. After pushing the plane for 25 yds, they raised her to 100 ft. off the ground. Then Mr. Allison turned on the regular propeller at the plane's nose. The machine rose to 1,000 ft., continued flying, an apparently successful demonstration of such a helicopteroid...
Pinoleum Million. So long ago that the trade name has become a common proprietary, a Dr. Bryan D. Sheedy, nose & throat man, mixed menthol, camphor, oil of eucalyptus, oil of Ceylon cinnamon and pine-needle oil in liquid petroleum and called his preparation pinoleum. He formed a corporation, the Pinoleum Co., which in recent years despite sharp competition by Standard Oil and others, has averaged $60,902 annual profits. Dr. Sheedy died three years ago. Last week his estate appraised...
...earliest heads and his last canvas, a large nude. Also shown was his last palette and a death mask taken in the hospital by his friends, the painter Kisling and the sculptor Lipshitz. It reveals a small ascetic face with sunken eyes, a very thin nose...