Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uses the conventional means of the law. A representative of the Better Element, he has had political experience more varied than the most cunning double-crossing ward heeler. Pontifical are the remarks which he makes in a soft baritone about the weather. Even his manner of blowing his nose in court is sonorous, distinguished. He also has imagination and a sense of humor...
...strikers. No Spanish language papers appeared. Factories closed. There were many in Havana last week who insisted that open revolution would now be under way and President Machado possibly be in exile were it not for the alertness of Patrolman Melvin of Atlantic City, N. J., and the sensitive nose of a New York City pedestrian...
Fortnight ago the pedestrian with the sensitive nose passed a rooming house on East 45th Street at the moment when Truckman Edward Wetzenberger was hoisting a large trunk from the sidewalk. The garageman smelled ether. He quickly telephoned the police station, "A man's carrying a trunk with a body in it out of a house here!" Detectives Elmer Mason and Rudolph McLaughlin climbed into their speedy little black Ford, rushed to the address in time to follow Mr. Wetzenberger's truck to a warehouse on East 41st Street. A Cuban broker by the name of Jorge...
...have about 5,500,000 cu. ft. of helium in her twelve gas cells (capacity 6,500,000 cu. ft.), more than enough to make her buoyant. Handling-lines manned by workmen would hold her fast to the concrete deck of the dock. Under the ship's blunt nose, with its shiny metal tip projecting 75 ft. overhead, was to be a flag-draped wooden platform, festooned with microphones, crowded with bigwigs of the Navy and of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. There would sit Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke. Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics David Sinton Ingalls...
...visible to the outsider are countless other details which make the Akron unique. The keels, for instance: instead of just one along the bottom, from nose to tail, the Akron has three-one under the top of the envelope, the two others along the sides, about a quarter of the way up from the bottom. Through each keel frame runs a triangular catwalk, the upper one giving access to the safety release valves above the helium bags. The lower ones serve as corridors to the engine rooms, airplane hangar, crew quarters, galley, messrooms; leading forward to the mooring apparatus...