Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sometimes doctor its photographs in order to obtain humorous results. . . . The July 9 issue, under "Germany," carries a cut of traitorous Roehm which appears either doctored, or light-struck and deliberately used for that reason. The dead Nazi, while far from pleasant looking, was not deformed by a Cyrano nose as this picture suggests. It would almost seem as though the editors . . . had sought by fair means or foul to obtain a picture which would fit the character of a monster of sensuality. . . . EDWIN HYDE LAMBERT Prescott, Ariz...
Reader Lambert errs. The late Capt. Roehm lost the upper part of his nose in an early battle of the War. TIME never has "doctored" a news photograph, never will...
...spread a blanket on a wagonload of potatoes, lay down on the blanket to sleep. As he snored, Farmer Corliss sank lower & lower in his wagon. When he woke, he lifted his head from the wagon's bottom. All his potatoes had been niched from under the snoring nose of William F. Corliss...
What the cinema was to the stage three seasons ago, the radio is currently becoming for the cinema: a standard subject for abuse. Strictly Dynamite is strictly routine. Even Jimmy Durante's nose cannot conceal the dullness of its narrative, the staleness of its jokes...
...prisoners learned their captors had been hijacked by bandits. The change made little difference to them. As they picked up more of the language they heard many a bloodthirsty threat. Aside from cramped quarters, boredom, vermin, bad food, the hardest thing they had to endure was hair-pulling, nose-and- ear-tweaking. The bandits delighted in calling them names. When asked what was the English for an obscene Chinese epithet, Author Johnson replied: "Parlez vous français?" "They were delighted and they spend their time saying Parlez vous français to us. Sometimes when they are very annoyed...