Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time to display themselves at Chicago. The big affair of the week was the Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons, whose Fellows include all the good practitioners of the country. Attending members studied and discussed hospital improvement plans, cancer research, industrial surgery, treatment of fractures, eye-ear-nose-&-throat surgery, care of crippled children. Acrimonious was the discussion on hospitals. Charged William James Mayo: "I would call attention to the clandestine-if I may use so opprobious a term-method of increasing hospital income by exorbitant charges for the use of the operating room. . . ." Passionately retorted Director Warren...
...Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-55) as "swordsman-libertine-man-of-letters." Author of Walt Whitman the Magnificent Idler, Biographer Rogers now finds his pen cluttered at every turn with a man whose short, quick-tempered life-rhythm was the polar opposite of Old Walt's. Cyrano's nose was "long, high-bridged, and bony, curved like a Moorish sword-blade, somewhat cleft at the extremity, and immensely arrogant." Believing the world mocked at his appendage, Cyrano began making diligent study of the art of the sword. He became a fiendish practicer among the Musketeers and Cardinals' Guards...
...potent U. S. pacifist groups, spokesmanned by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, finally persuaded Monsignor Ladeuze, Rector of Louvain University, that the Warren-Mercier inscription was "likely to breed hatred." Soon rector and architect openly quarrelled. Dramatically Monsignor Ladeuze brandished a cablegram beneath the slightly beaked patrician nose of Architect Warren...
...Some of my friends have been trying to at least get me to powder my nose, but I won't even do that...
...triune is able to make even such vacuous foolery as Candle-Light a matter for winks and nudges. Mr. Wodehouse translated it from the German of Siegfried Geyer, embellished it with his own impish slang and metaphor. Miss Lawrence plays the part of a cuddlesome lady with a crinkly nose who accepts a blind date over the telephone and presently finds herself received by a debonair, ingenuous Prince-Mr. Howard. Asked if he has many mistresses, he observes: "They do pile up." She is even more enchanted by the Prince's frolicsome valet, who kisses her when his master...