Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eventual new Depression more disastrous than the last. By a vote of 241 to 117 this Labor motion was defeated. Next the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin put Rearmament to the test, triumphed overwhelmingly as the Government bill passed without even the formality of a division (nose-counting). This formality Major Attlee could have forced if Labor were sincere in wanting to get on record who is for and who is against Rearmament. Bleated Laborite Ammon of the rank & file: "Those who should hold the confidence of the country are using that confidence to bring on preparations...
Last year Stahley had to make a half mile dash from the lacrosse field in back of the Business School every day to nose in under the wire when he got in only ten minutes of practice with the blocking backs. This year "Skip" will keep a car handy and use it to tear madly from one field to another to cut minutes of waste...
...sons, one of them a Yale history instructor. The sons hurried back to Uniontown, got the case reopened. After an autopsy the coroner made some surprising discoveries. His first examination, said he, had been so hurried that he had failed to notice eleven fractured ribs, a fractured jaw, fractured nose, hemorrhage of the brain, hemorrhage of the throat and internal hemorrhages. After a three-day investigation Pennsylvania's Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti concluded that Frank Monaghan had been "barbarously and brutally beaten to death in an effort to obtain a confession from...
...when Mrs. C. S. Howard's Seabiscuit, who had led the field coming into the stretch, and William du Pont's Rosemont, who had come up fast in the last furlong, went under the wire together. Developed two minutes later, the photograph showed Rosemont leading by a nose (see cut). Third was Indian Broom. Odds against Rosemont, the favorite, were about 4-to-1. His share of the year's biggest purse...
...Kingston, Pa., in Nesbitt Memorial Hospital. Nurse Georgia De Frane was applying a solution to the leg wounds of Miner John Lapore. 45, when he suddenly bit off the tip of her nose...