Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...action. Scorching down the famed speed saucer's straightaway, 122 miles an hour, Dario Resta's Grand Prix Sunbeam, with the power of 160 horses, went out of his control, skidded for 300 yards, shot sidewise over the saucer's edge, crashed an iron fence, nose-dived into the ground, righted, burst into flames. Resta was hurled headlong with terrific force against a fence-post, semi-decapitated, horribly mangled. His mechanician fell free, damaged but slightly. A few days before, Resta had called Brooklands "the easiest course in the world." After he won the U. S. championship...
WINGS - Ethel M. Kelley - Knopf ($2.00). The caricature of a complacent male reviewing, through the smoke of his cigarette, his many loves . . . ladies, who for desire of his smug lips are hanging by the neck from his shoestrings, plunging to death from the bridge of his nose, smothering themselves in his pockets. Such a caricature is Jasper Hutchinson. Also, he is a genius, and resembles a Greek god; possibly the Greek god Priapus.* The story of his devastating parade through the, lives of many women begins with the last-the little debutante whom he is to marry. Drinking the honey...
...Volendam (Holland America)-50 eye, ear and nose specialists from a post-graduate course in Oto-Laryngology at Vienna...
...most extraordinary cartoons ever published was one by Oliver Herford, in Life, representing Publisher Hearst as a terrible, glossy reptilian, crawling over the earth, nose to ground, its nine writhing arms stretched out to grasp as many State capitals...
Cardinal Manning, "a great nose, glittering eyes and a mouth drawn back...