Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deputies bustled into the Palais-Bour-bon last week for what was sure to be a wild scene, reception by the Chamber of new Premier Leon Blum, a prosperous and infirm old Socialist whose spidery limbs and thin beaked nose give him the air of a flamingo. Flapping gestures complete the illusion and Premier Blum last week was also bird-like in his air of being exquisitely preened and valeted. Spotless were his pearl-grey spats. Faint was his aroma of eau de Cologne. He had just set up one of the very largest Cabinets ever formed in France...
...Ashenden is not the only new cinema personage produced by Secret Agent. The picture also affords U. S. audiences a glimpse of the young actor who is currently London's favorite Hamlet. An elegantly slim young man upon whose emaciated face a formidable nose between gimlet eyes suggests the front of a streamlined car, John Gielgud is the 32-year-old great-nephew of the late great Ellen Terry. A product of Westminster, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and several years of British stock, he made his reputation in successive appearances as Romeo, Hamlet and King Lear at London...
...sensed the situation of snowy waters, consequent cramps, the rugged rocks which I at that moment was bumping, the bottomless whirlpool, the 'hellespontiac' current of the waters and the boulders against which my head would surely be dashed. . . . Just then the spray lifted my glasses off my nose, thank goodness, for then at least my eyes would have a chance to hold the pennies to pay Charon. . . . [Then I learned] that St. Peter had rejected me, for I was on the surface again and being rushed with the current...
...voyage win the Blue Ribbon had been discounted not only days but months and years in advance by Sir Percy Elly Bates, Cunard White Star's long-jawed Flintshire chairman, whose gold spectacles have such long frames that the lenses rest on the very tip of his long nose, and whose jutting jaw makes his friends call him "Chin" Bates. Much like the late great Calvin Coolidge in the dryness of his remarks, in the way his mouth folds upon itself and closes like a purse after one of his Flintshire sallies, Sir Percy was easily the most eminent...
...30th.--Comes the woman betimes to wake me, saying a man with big nose of great business is here to see me. So, I, very quick, up wondering who it be; but soon found out and vexed at my heart to see it be only the good Samaritan, Max Keezer. So we to do great bargaining and I very merry to hear him talk. But I not to give in to his offerings for I have heard his next step is to flip for the amount of the disagreement; and I did wait for this; and, bless my soul...