Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national policy is, thus, that of a Far Eastern Monroe Doctrine. The League of Nations is not necessary to Japan. We have no occasion to poke our nose into Europe's affairs. We should concentrate our efforts on the stabilization of Asia. . . . 'Back to Asia' is the watchword of our party. We may be forced to quit the League and China may renew her campaign against us. We must prepare for repetition of the Shanghai affair, and it is impossible to expect improvement in our relations with the United States; they are likely to become worse. . . . Extraordinary measures, in which...
...Hutchinson plane is a black-&-silver Sikorsky amphibian named, of course, The Flying Family with the Italian Familia Volano* painted on either side of the nose. Also painted on the fuselage is a white winged circle enclosing the heads of a man, a woman and two children...
...other allergies: 1) certain substances are mildly poisonous to certain people; 2) people react to their personal poisons in specific ways. The irritants may be plant pollens (ragweed, timothy, oak), foods (wheat, milk, eggs, fish), ani maldanders, feathers, dusts. The victim may show his symptoms in his nose and eyes (this is hayfever per se), his skin (hives), brain (migraine), intestines (colitis). Two theories concerning the physiology of allergy have many followers among the specialists. One theory presumes that proteins in pollens, foods, etc. get into the blood and reach the body cells. When the cells first encounter the strange...
...Welland Ship Canal between Lakes Erie & Ontario police heard of a plot to assassinate James Henry Thomas, British Secretary of State for Dominions. Orders went out for the arrest of "a Sinn Feiner of the most radical type -a slight, ruddy-faced Irishman with a broad, noticeable nose"-a description which, except for the nationality, might also be applied to Mr. Thomas. In Toronto was apprehended one Dan Malone, who said it was a "frame...
...tunes on the piano. They enabled him to defraud theatre managers who had hired Chico. He went to work in jobs that Chico had secured, four times received a week's wages before he was discharged. The fifth theatre manager, forewarned, recognized Harpo by a wart on his nose. Harpo was thrashed...