Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China's face, Japan also slapped at the Great Powers, signatories of the Washington and London naval treaties. She did not, to be sure, stage Japanese naval maneuvers off San Francisco or Liverpool. But in Tokyo the official Foreign Office spokesman, Mr. Eiji Amau, a great adept at diplomatic nose-thumbing, called in white correspondents, gave an impressive exhibition...
Last week the spearhead was quivering, its nose buried in a labor dispute, but it had not reached there at a single flight. Long had the cotton textile industry desired better things. In 1926 it obtained one of those better things, a Cotton-Textile Institute. As secretary for its Institute it got a bright, handsome young son of one of Nashville's leading department store owners. His name was George Arthur Sloan and, as Secretary of the Copper & Brass Research Association, he had learned the art of running trade associations. He plunged into the job of finding new uses...
...controlled by the German Steel Trust of Fritz Thyssen, No. 1 contributor to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party funds. Unable to crack down on Thyssen in Germany, the Austrian Government last week sent soldiers to A. M. G.'s resident Director General Herr Anton Apold. Under his nose they shoved an order from the Ministry of Justice, demanding $40,000 reparation for damage done in Styria by Nazi rebels, plus $30,000 as the Government's estimated cost for suppressing the rebellion...
When a woman with a great beak of a nose (macrorrhinia) and no more chin than a rabbit (microgenia), pays a plastic surgeon to beautify her, the obvious procedure would be for the surgeon to graft upon the chin what he removes from the nose. However, the logic of such an operation seems to have occurred to only one plastic surgeon in all the last decade's welter of face-cutting. Dr. Gustave Aufricht of Manhattan, who has transferred 21 big noses to 21 little chins, last week laid claim to this originality in the American Journal of Surgery...
...tips'. ... I cannot help feeling that this new England is lacking in character, in zest, gusto, flavour, bite, drive, originality, and that this is a serious weakness. . . . We ought to be ashamed of ourselves. Anybody who imagines that this is a time for self-congratulation has never poked his nose outside Westminster, the City and Fleet Street. ... We have led the world, many a time before today. . . . We can lead it again. We headed the procession when it took . . . the wrong turning. ... It is for us to find the way out again, into the sunlight...