Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gently Enterprise's clean white nose splashed at the water. Skipper Vanderbilt looked her over: below, where some of the rigging comes down through the hollow metal mast; on deck, where many new mechanical gadgets are?the "sliding-foot" boom, the instrument for indicating windstrain on the mast?that caused his boat to be called "mechanical" by conservative sea-dogs. Aboard the shiny green Shamrock V Edward ("Ted") Heard, Sir Thomas's professional Captain, looked his boat over. She had not many gadgets, but her aged owner, on his Erin, had a good-luck message from President Cosgrave...
...paper. He heard crowds yelling: "There's something for Hoover to swallow! What do you think of that, Mr. Hoover? Hurrah for Ritchie! Stand up, Bert! Take off your hat! Bow! You're all wet, Ritchie!" As the Wet demonstration continued under his nose the President's round face lost its affable smile and the corners of his mouth went down into a grim expression. After he had returned silently to Washington, the V. of F. W. went to Annapolis for a crab feast, which afflicted several hundred delegates with ptomaine poisoning. When enough of them...
...Gallant Fox, with Earl Sande up: the Lawrence Realization Stake at Belmont by a nose from Questionnaire. His earnings, now greatest of any U. S. horse in history, total...
...medical joke: A man convalescing from a severe nose operation cried out to his nurse that he had to sneeze. "Go right ahead,'' said she, ''that shows you are getting better. It will be a great feather in my cap. "Very well," said the patient. "You just stand out of the way and I'll make?Kerchooo!?an Indian Chief...
...Olympia, Wash., to see about opening a new church but when I came back I entered the hospital to have my nose fixed. I held up my entry into the hospital because I knew that Sister was having her face lifted the same as I had done before. We both had face lifts. There's nothing wrong in that, is there...