Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baritone Lawrence Tibbett sat in his shabby dressing-room at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House one night last week, making himself a nose. Baritone Tibbett's natural nose is no bigger than a grape. Whenever he sings in opera he has to build it up so that it can be seen over the footlights. But last week's nose he wanted to be particularly imposing. It was to be a nose to match trailing velvet robes, an ermine cape and a regal beehive headgear, a nose that would be worthy of the U. S. premiere...
...back was to the door, and the hotel forbids paging in its dining room. For an hour and a half he continued to eat slowly while bellboys gesticulated from the doorway and the lobby swarmed with buzzing bees. Finally one found its way to its master, lit on his nose. Beeman Barrett quietly put it in his pocket, finished his coffee, went on a beehunt. Amid cheers he retrieved half. The rest are still at large...
...practical prisoners broke into the canteen and guzzled the warders' whiskey and beer. Somebody knocked the spectacles off the 64-year-old Chaplain's nose. Another convict handed them back. "You'll need these, sir," said he, "you'd best be getting home...
...with jewel-clotted gold. For each face there was a gold-&-turquoise mask. Extraordinary objects of gold, silver, copper, jade, turquoise, coral, pearl, nacre, rock crystal, alabaster, lay ranged about. Trophy of one warrior was a human skull, richly encrusted with turquoise and shell. In the hollow of the nose was a flint knife...
...frankly that familiar sentence "today the Vagabond will go to hear--" is merely a terminal convenience, a tradition much like the King opening parliament. Nor is the Vagabond a cheap penny columnist, no adviser to the love lorn he! He writes for the same reason the man thumbed his nose at the Queen, it seems to be the best thing to do at the time. It is a great satisfaction to him to dash off the manifold things that come to mind, and it isn't his fault if they publish it. It is, of course, quite natural that...