Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blood flow-external and internal-from a broken nose...
...Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Johnny Shugrue bumped his nose on Pal Moran's fist in the first round of their prospective twelve. Blood-flow external and internal from the broken nose blinded him. In the fifth round the referee called the bout on account of Shugrue's optical darkness. When the end came, he was a vivid study in red. Moran punched and punctured at the same time...
...recent establishment of the International Clinic of Plastic Surgery at St. Andrew's Hospital, London, where some marvelous work of this nature has been done. Facial surgery is attracting wide attention in America because of the activities of Dr. Henry J. Shireson, Chicago surgeon who reconstructed the nose of Fanny Brice, vaudeville actress, but who was subsequently dubbed "nose quack" and was "chased out of New York" by the Daily News (TIME...
...truthful thesis in itself, already proved to satiety? Ought not the case to be rested? The virus has been injected into the body politic these many years; are not all purposes of innoculation served? Surely the last pair of rosy spectacles has been dashed from the last contented nose; surely there is left no benighted Victorian who has not learned that "beauty" is a quivering suggestion of sex and neurosis? For there seems to be not a page in this collection of stories to which one can return with admiration and warmth, saying, "Here is good writing! Here the austerity...
...general policy and said he knew what he was up against. The opposition seized upon the salient point of the Premier-his pipe. Free Trade posters depicted him smoking " Baldwin twist" in it and producing fumes labeled " high prices," with the inevitable John Bull in the background pinching his nose and saying: "The smell is enough." A cartoon entitled...