Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four months he has proved himself a shrewd and aggressive naval chief who runs the department instead of letting the admirals run it. A good mixer, he has known most of them by their first names for years. His pince-nez slide down his long snipe nose. He wears coats two sizes too big. His felt hat is generally cocked at a raffish angle. For weekends he goes off on a destroyer to sniff salt air or visits the Hoover camp on the Rapidan, now in charge of marines. In his office he scorns details. When mail stacks...
...Republican swaggered down Madrid's Broadway, the noisy Calle de Alcala. Before the 17th Century Calatravas Church, he stopped. Its soft slate façade was a mass of scrawled inscriptions and caricatures. One he had never noticed before, a silhouet of a man with a large hooked nose and protruding...
...Francisco, has his trip made hideous by two chorus girls whom he discovers in his room after the ship has sailed. The main liabilities of Melody Cruise are the performers technically called "juveniles"-Phil Harris, who sings well but looks like Harry Richman with curvature of the nose, and Helen Mack. There are two pleasing songs,-''He Isn't the Marrying Kind" and "Isn't This a Night for Love"-attractive shipboard interiors, and photographic novelties like a shot of the sky with stars assembling themselves into a bar of music. Comment by Mordaunt Hall, onetime...
...Oklahoma City, Okla., George T. Nichols' infected nose swelled to twice its normal size. Claiming the infection was caused by a shaving brush he had bought at a local store, he sued the store for $50,000. Said he: "It is a great humiliation to carry around an infected nose; no one can feel frank and free with his family and friends under such conditions...
...shake off the dust of Wisconsin is to write a book about saints. Glenway Wescott, self-exiled in France, has been dipping his Wisconsin-haunted nose in hagiography. This little (215 pp.) anthology of saints' lives, at least one for every day in the year, is "not a learned work" nor a book for the devout, but "a simple picture of a crowd . . . blessed degenerates, mere sportsmen of asceticism, man-sized infants, a demigod or two, politicians, fearful beauties, awful fools, and, of course, those for whom there simply would have had to be some such word...