Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Artiglio II seaman, "in some mud the divers sent up from the Egypt's galley- cursed smelly mud!" Other "finds" washed by nose-holding sailors from the pantry mud: ¶ Brass disk stamped "P. & O." (the Egypt was a Peninsular & Orient liner). ¶ Rusty tube of a onetime shaving stick. ¶ Portion of an English Bible. "The rest of this Bible," conjectured the diver who sent the mud up, "had been gnawed away, probably by rats before the Egypt sank." Soon primed last week with wine, spaghetti and fresh bombs, Artiglio II resumed from Brest her quest...
...that Billie Hicks would one day be Women's Golf Champion of the U.S. She outdrives any woman opponent and most men. Two years ago she won the first 72-hole medal tournament for women, at Flossmoor, Ill. by 14 strokes. Now 20, Billie Hicks has a freckled nose, fat cheeks, hirsute forearms, chubby legs, a mop of dark hair, a broad Irish grin. She likes to read (John Galsworthy, Louis Bromfield), likes better to race about in her father's big sedan or the smaller car he gave her two years ago. A month ago someone asked...
...more engines, then two more, until all eight Maybachs are driving the Akron over Portage Lakes and over the city of Akron where flowers are dropped upon the city hospital for an injured officer of the Akron's staff. Thence the airship heads toward Cleveland, first dipping her nose in salute over the home of Assistant Secretary Ingalls at Chagrin Falls. The ship flies on to complete a 125-mi. circuit...
...effect Kip and Maggie May, united, rejoiced. When it fell into desuetude they mourned, wished they could do something about it. Kip's chance came when his employer, Banker Fessenden, went into the 'legging racket and had liquor run ashore of nights under Kip's unsleeping nose. One night the watchman was shot. At the coroner's inquest Kip told all. When he lost his job Maggie May became a Prohibition lecturer. She enthralled bigger & bigger crowds, telling about the degeneration of her father. Not to be outdone. Kip got a job as Prohibition agent, visited...
Georgie's last adolescent shock was when her father died and she found among his papers contraceptive devices that were Greek to her, pornographic postcards that were not. When Geoffrey wrote her a brotherly letter of farewell Georgie's big nose got redder; she settled down hopelessly to be a village old maid...