Word: noses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question the accurateness of your nose for news...
...Washington, by Ralph E. Church. Last week, encouraged by success, Representative Church climaxed his public career. On Thanksgiving Eve, when the Senate had already sensibly adjourned, Sam Rayburn proposed that the House adjourn until two days later. Instantly, Illinois' Church, still insistent that the House keep its nose to the grindstone, was on his feet to ask whether it was true that there would be no action on the Tax Bill till the regular session...
...metal hull is suspended beneath a 157-ft. wing span. Stubby sea wings extend 13 ft. from the sides of the hull directly below the main span, contribute to the strength and stability of the whole ship and provide storage space for 4,260 gal. of fuel. In the nose is its anchor hatch, dual flight control station, bridge, navigation and radio rooms. Three passenger compartments and a lounge in the centre of the hull provide space for 45 passengers by day, can be converted into sleeping accommodation for 26 by night. Fanciest gadget is a lounge table...
...beginning to suffer for his unsuccessful resistance against the inhumanity of the grotesquely pious housemaster. The three young women start things off with a cocktail housewarming in the middle of the night, thus beginning a merry demoralization that almost results in the ruin of the worthy master, under whose nose it all takes place. When they think that they have cost him his job, they seek to make amends by trying to marry him off to their aunt, but he manages to cling gracefully to celibacy, and winds up in the place of the clergyman, as the new headmaster...
...over throughout the first half, his brow a mass of furrows. Finally, after a Foley-Macdonald reverse which made the Elis look like participants in "button, button, who's got the button," he picked up a New Haven paper and turned to the "help wanted" page and kept his nose buried in it for the remainder of the game...