Word: nosey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Butler, to speak at a banquet.* That same day Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante was appearing at a Pittsburgh theatre. Stepping off his train, General Butler thrust his head forward in characteristic pose, stomped down the platform. Loiterers, mistaking him for the well-publicized Durante, began to cheer. That evening nosey Comedian Durante turned up at the banquet where nosey General Butler was speaking. A cameraman snapped them nose to nose...
...summer as a forest ranger in Montana, was not very good at his job. His attention wandered, he pined for society, he often went fishing when he should have been patrolling his range. Nobody but Harry would have lasted very long under such a single-minded tartar as "Nosey" Durham, who was proud of having the best-patrolled district in the country. Even Durham's wife, though she had cause to complain of his lack of ardor, respected and feared his virility. But Harry had such a winning way with him that his boss never fired him permanently...
...puzzle rather than a nightmare, are therefore attributable to a skillful adaptation by Niven Busch of Mary Roberts Rinehart's story. Comic relief in mystery stories is so easy to do that it is seldom done as satisfactorily as when a policeman herein finds fault with a nosey reporter. "I'm the Morning Eagle," says the reporter. "Go feather your nest," the policeman says, and throws him off the porch. Joan Blondell's round eyes give her, the astonished appearance proper to a female detective. George Brent, an actor currently being groomed as a competitor to Clark...
When, momentarily escaping his oppressive public, he pays a late call on his fianceée (Mary Brian), a tabloid reporter informs him that the call is capable of turning into scandal. Even when married, Scotty Boy has a hard time. He abuses a nosey reporter and has to go on a good-will tour to make up for it. He has a misunderstanding with his wife when she is tricked into signing a cheap article about him. At the end of the picture there is a letdown, as though the authors (Mary McCall Jr. and Robert Lord) did not know...
...Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden's New York Evening Graphic, a pink tabloid devoted to its owner's cult of things physical published an epithalamic editorial, based upon pure assumption, dealing with a subject into which not even the most nosey newspapers are accustomed to intrude. Under the heading "When Athletes Marry," the Graphic publicly discussed Mrs. Moody and her husband as follows...