Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sharp "How" broke in on his thought. Whence came this white-haired intruder who braved double vengeance, so the Vagabond hoped, with his crass "Don't you think. . ." A sole invasion, perhaps. But no. There was the seedy individual who whined it down his long spectacle bestridden nose; there was the impeccable curlyhead, doubtless a Freshman, who wheedled; there was the lumpy cherub who peeped. The pack...
...Speaker Garner announced that he would put to an immediate House vote a resolution to repeal the 18th Amendment, with ratification by State conventions. As both parties had declared Wet, he favored quick disposal of the question. About the Capitol for a week there was much scurrying and nose-counting. Would the resolution muster the necessary two-thirds vote? Majority Leader Rainey thought so. Others were less certain. Die-hard Drys fumed at the State convention method of ratification, succeeded in inducing the Judiciary Committee to reject (13-to-6) the Garner resolution...
...Lewis train for the match, lop-eared John Evko, climbed into the ring in his bathrobe, whacked Challenger Steele. Referee Forbes tried unsuccessfully to push Wrestler Evko out of the ring, then awarded the bout to Lewis on a foul. A disgruntled spectator slapped Promoter Jack Curley on the nose. Members of the New York State Athletic Commission prepared to investigate the bout...
While managing editor of London's Sunday Express (he does not name it, calls it simply "perhaps the most Virile and progressive London newspaper"). Sinner Russell's newsy nose became aware of a new religious movement at Oxford. He investigated it and it converted him. What he tells will mostly be old stuff to Buchmanites, but onlooking sinners will welcome this thoroughgoing if diffuse report on the Methodism of our day. Buchmanism, much more respectable than it was a few years ago, is apparently much less preoccupied by sex-sensationalism. Says Russell. "The words purity and impurity...
There is nothing tramplike about the News's new editor who was once reputed "the ablest journalist between Chicago and Manhattan." He is gentle, somewhat naïve, with a professorial mannerism of peering over the tops of spectacles which are always slipping down his nose. Born 58 years ago in Indiana, son of a college president, Earle Martin began early to prepare himself for the newspaper business. While yet in school he wrote Author David Graham Phillips whom his mother used to tutor in Greek, asking what he should do about it. Author Phillips prescribed a college education...