Word: noses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlanta, "Ajax," a quarter-ton stone lion marking an apartment driveway entrance, mysteriously disappeared, three nights later reappeared at its post with its nose daubed red, a sign hung around its neck: "Boy! What a party! And was I drunk...
Unlocking the lab door, the professor proceeded us into the room screaming "Franklin, Franklin", at the top of his professorial lungs. Franklin poked his nose out from behind a can of refuse, exhibiting his magnificently scarred coat of fur and his blood clotted ears, fresh from the back alley arenas of Boston's catdom. Grabbing the beast by the nape, our host handed him to us to hold--unpleasant, because Frankie's claws were sharp as steel and busy every second. The professor meanwhile doused a cotton wad in ether on which to deposit the beast...
...next job was to keep Frankie out of trouble during the operation, and we were quickly handed a Campbell's soup tin stuffed with ether-soaked cotton to hold like a cone over the animal's nose. But it was no go. For Frankie was tough, and soon revived. He took one look in our direction to assure himself that the opposition was coming from the same quarters as before, and acted...
...base of the control column, bent and crushed as by heavy pressure. Reconstructing the tragedy, the investigators could see Pilot Thompson making his banked turn over the Bay; the microphone falling off its hook unnoticed; Pilot Thompson pulling back on his stick to bring the ship's nose up after the turn; the stick jamming, Pilot Thompson straining horrified against it as the ship roared on down to smite the water...
Sulu, Andrew G. C. Gage's graceful pointer bitch, found only one covey, showing much of the style but little of the nose for birds which won her last year's championship. Homewood Flirtatious, the 1935 winner, did no better. Famed Doctor Blue Willing has won more major field trials than any living bird dog, but the National has always eluded him. Making his fifth try this year, the gallant, hammer-headed old pointer seemed shaky and uncertain, spent much time roaming off course, located only two coveys. Saddler, a 4-year-old pointer who should have known...