Word: nosey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With her, and settling down as her next-door neighbor, has come a dilettantish, old-maidish male (Cyril Ritchard). Against her, from the moment she arrives, is the formidable Miss Mapp, a manhunting, stop-at-nothing Nosey Parker (Catherine Willard). The struggle for primacy between the two women-Lucia's efforts to dethrone Miss Mapp as a tyrant, Miss Mapp's to unmask Lucia as a fraud-produces a series of mock-heroic crescendos and climaxes...
...this careful attention to detail brings Gorgeous George upwards of $70,000 a year. He doesn't seem to mind playing his swishy role. But he steps out of character whenever anybody asks nosey questions about his wife and two kids: "Let's leave the better half of my life outa this...
...prolific mothers, a Mrs. Fitzgerald, paid impartial homage to statesmanship by calling her eighth Eamon, her ninth Winston; Mrs. Noonan named her 13th and 14th Pius and Pascal. A connoisseur of hospitals, Mrs. Noonan scorned the nurses who had attended her on the occasion of Padraic. "Nosey. They was that nosey that they turned out me locker for to clean it. Quare sort of cleaning they gev it. Examinin' me belongin's. Jest because I had put away a couple of biscuits and crunchies and some fish and chips me cousin got me and pickled pigs' trotters...
When Dr. Tansill had run down, Representative Rankin, who had a prominent place up front, attempted a discreet getaway, ran into a nosey hanger-on, declared testily that the speaker had gone "too far," and that "the time has come to draw the mantle of charity over all that." The ladies were reduced to angry bewilderment. But unreconstructed Dr. Tansill was still snapping like a terrapin. Said he: "You can see how badly the South was beaten that the defeatist attitude should last so long...
People in & around New York's Rensselaer County know Granville Hicks as that nosey writing feller who lives on a farm (without farming it) over to Grafton township (pop. 627). Onetime college professor and repentant Communist, Hicks, 45, has been a year-round resident of Grafton .since 1935, and would probably deny that he sticks his nose into anything. But he notes with satisfaction that he, an "intellectual," belongs to the P.T.A. and the volunteer fire department, that he is secretary of the fire district, director of the Community League, editor of the town bulletin, and trustee of School...