Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drill sergeant, advanced upon "Tony" Eden, seized his hand, shook it vigorously, gave the Nazi salute with upraised arm individually to "Tony" and two other members of the Council, whirled on his heel and began to stalk out. Hearing snickers from the 80 journalists present, Nazi Greiser thumbed his nose at the press box. This evoked a mighty uproar which puzzled the Council because its members could not see the German's gesture but only his broad back. Up jumped the Manchester Guardian's Robert Dell, President of the International Association of Journalists Accredited to the League...
...Socialist canton of Geneva expelled them all-some Italian journalists of ten years' standing with families in Geneva. But they received wires of praise from Italy's new Press & Propaganda Secretary Odoardo Dino Alfieri for a Fascist escapade at which the London Times looked down its stern nose thus: "Nothing else was wanting to add the last touch of dignity to one side of the contest and to remove the last traces of it upon the other...
...spectators at Ascot last week broke the first tradition. William Woodward's Omaha, 1935 U. S. champion three-year-old, failed by a nose to break the second. First prize went to Lord Stanley's filly, Quashed...
...original French Revolution. Last week in many lands grave heads were wondering what plain Jean Frenchman, a million strong, may now be starting with his spontaneous and uncontrolled strikes (TIME, June 8, et seq.), his gay singing of Red songs in the anxious streets of Paris, his candid nose-thumbing, half amused and half contemptuous, at new Premier Blum of the Third Republic...
...Miami, H. H. Farr awoke to find his pillow spotted with blood, a tiny cut in his nose, deduced that in his sleep he had punctured himself with his stiffly waxed mustache...