Word: noses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communist, refused last week in Manhattan to sign the crew's round-robin message of congratulation to Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands on the birth of her first child (TIME, Feb. 7). Explained other members of the crew afterward: "We popped that Communist stoker on the nose. The Rotterdam is a royalist ship...
...Such wiuld be the 'meatball' type," the article declares, whom one sees grinding away, unkempt and bespectacled, in Widener Library; or the science major whose nose has been buried in a laboratory since he first entered Harvard, and so is neither very formidable nor very appealing...
...Ohio who was just as bald as Clarence Huff. Last year Farmer Horn quietly replaced Farmer Huff as president. And last September Farmers National had the bad luck to be short in the market when there was a squeeze in corn (TIME, Oct. 4). Farmers National paid through the nose to cover its short commitments. So the decision of President Horn and his stockholders last week seemed to be the best way out of a distasteful situation...
...18th. I was dozing. Professor Bell was wrapped up with his own words and not too mindful of his class. He droned like a summer bee, interrupting the hum every minute with a thunderous blast from a rheumy nose. Suddenly he ceased droning: "And what do you think of "Thucydides's method of art. Mr. Appleworth?" There was a silence, so I thought. Harold nudged me, and I opened my eyes: "Oh you were speaking to me? What is what?" Professor Bell stared and twisted his mouth as I once saw one of Clyde Beatty's lions do. "I asked...
...paper. . . . Better reporting on the sports pages. . . . Profanity . . . would be quoted as spoken or not at all. . . . There should be more strife between the rags. . . . The bosses ought to tell daily book reviewers to make one enemy a week, taking a punch in the nose if necessary...