Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there will probably be many attending the Convention who will want to have their fling in New York. Being strangers here, they will be ready to pay. Whether they will have to pay through the nose (i. e.?dearly) depends on two factors...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC?Walter Hampden making this luscious romance an evening of indescribable glamor, even when the spotlight is on his nose...
...rose. Underwood of Alabama came and went, playing an unobtrusive part in the front row. Pat Harrison of Mississippi, the great denunciator, remained for the most part silent, save when he rose to deliver one of his thunderbolts across the House. Two rows further back, pince-nez on nose, sat the sententious Ashurst of Arizona, intent on periodically expressing himself with great deliberation, learning and politeness. King of Utah, very 'businesslike, examined every bill, the least important, with meticulous eye and, "reserving the right to object," would demand an explanation of it. Following this, he generally declined to object, while...
...anyone over note the resemblance of the nose for news to the buzzard's beak...
...Gibbons. It was against the Frenchman's body that Gibbons directed his main attack, and as the final bell sounded, Carp's torso was seen to be a red, raw mass. Georges' face, also, was smeared with blood from a cut over his eye, and his nose and lips had been sadly battered. Carp attempted something like an offensive in the first four rounds, especially in the fourth, when his famed right landed on Gibbons' jaw and rocked him for a moment. Gibbons, stung, concealed his trouble and soon counterattacked. From that point until...