Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funds for great philanthropy, he yet wished to do something in his remaining years to express his thanks for the good things life had brought him, something to make life pleasanter for the citizens of Yamagata. He started on a campaign that soon won him the affectionate nickname of Nose Wiper, a campaign which, spreading to Tokyo, recently brought him an interview with a Tokyo reporter, Mr. S. Okuyama...
Agile for his 53 years, nose-wiping Mr. Takahashi sprang from bed, dressed hastily in a rusty black European suit. With a few deft snips of a pair of shears he transformed the morning paper into a pile of paper handkerchiefs which he stuffed into one pocket, also pocketing a large hand mirror. Round his neck he hung a placard of a Japanese schoolboy with running nose. In brilliant ideographs down the side ran the legend: THIS PICTURE SHOULD NOT BE A SIGNBOARD FOR JAPAN. BLOW YOUR NOSE. OTHERWISE YOU WILL BE LAUGHED AT BY FOREIGNERS. Humbly Reporter Okuyama followed...
...handle the religion.' I worked things into good shape at once but I made enemies of some of Sister's friends. We had a number of arguments and then one day she called me into her office. She was furious and after some words she struck me on the nose...
...Nose...
...Fitchburg, Mass., Donald Maegan received a bash on the face from an automobile accident which straightened his nose. His nose had been crooked since a similar accident five years...