Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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London's tall, unarmed, polite police are adequate to deal with Englishmen, Scotsmen or Welshmen. But last week a heavy guard of Bobbies at Euston Station were swept aside like chaff by a crowd of grinning Irishmen who were more than willing to punch the nose of any officer who resisted. With shouts of "WE WANT DEV!", the Irish captured a platform up to which rolled a train bearing President Eamon de Valera. They clawed and climbed their way to the roof of the train -something which in England "isn't done" -cheered and waved Irish flags while...
...both these protests Premier Goga had an answer. Under the nose of the U. S. Minister he waved a sheaf of protests cabled by U. S. Jewish organizations. "These," he cried, "are merely impudent!" To Mr. Ostrovsky, the Foreign Office replied with a public announcement: "The Rumanian Government would in no way object to the departure of the Soviet Ambassador at an even earlier date...
...Ranch. Woodcutters and ranchers working in Bridger Peak's thick fur of timber presently heard the din of Nick Mamer's two motors. Looking up, they spotted the glistening airliner hovering in apparent difficulty over a small clearing. In a twinkling it plunged straight down, bashed its nose into the frozen ground so hard that the plane telescoped like a tin drinking cup. BOOM went the gasoline tank and instantly the wreck was a fountain of flame which blackened the snow for 100 ft., prevented the horrified witnesses from trying to extricate the ten men aboard. When...
...hustled unhappily toward the wreck, no one had any idea what could have caused it. The weather on the spot was blowy but no tempest. The plane had the best of equipment, even a unique loop antenna made static-proof by enclosure in the ship's transparent plexiglass nose. Lockheed 143's can maintain their height on one engine and it seemed incredible that both could have cut out simultaneously. Said Farmer Homer White, first witness to re-turn to Bozeman: "I think the clearing was big enough for the plane to land in but there were...
...Wilbur Gould's where-abouts be given to the police, college authorities, or Attorney Julius H. Bregman, Commander Hotel, Cambridge. Gould is five feet ten and a half inches tall, weighs 150 pounds, and has medium brown hair brushed straight back, gray eyes, a very light complexion, a prominent nose, and a brown mole on his right cheek...