Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Longworth's chair and advance upon the hotheads. Such quarrels instantly and almost invariably cool. Probably apocryphal is the story that a Congress man once refused to cool, whereupon the quick-witted Sergeant-at-Arms placed the silver eagle's beak within a half-inch of the Congressman's nose and exclaimed: "Sit down or he'll peck...
...crackup. Three flyers took off in a Martin bomber for parachute tests, with 200-lb. dummies secured in the bomb rack beneath the fuselage. About 100 ft. aloft, the parachute of one of the dummies worked loose, streamed aloft, was jerked full open by the wind. Down snapped the nose of the plane as if an anchor had suddenly been dropped. The short dive wrecked the ship, set it afire, seriously injured Lieut. Commander Oscar W. Erickson and his two assistants...
...Manhattan, when Fred Roth put three nickels in succession into a pay-station telephone and got no response, Fred Roth ran amok, ripped out the door of the booth, punched a policeman's nose, landed in jail...
When Amy Johnson, England-to-Australia flyer (TIME, June 2), arrived in Perth on her triumphal tour of Australia's cities, a youth climbed aboard her motor from the cheering mob, tried to kiss her. She narrowed her eyes, drew back her hand, bloodied his nose...
Although he enjoys flying and his work requires much of it, Engineer Hoover Jr. is essentially a radioman. Not all his flights have ended happily. Once a trailing antenna fouled a telegraph wire, spilled his plane on its nose...