Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defeated In Memoriam in the mile and a quarter match race for $20,000 at Louisville, Ky. He won by a nose after chasing In Memoriam to the last stride. It was possibly the closest finish in turf history...
...hangar, and there is always considerable hazard in such work. But now (for the first time in American aviation) a dirigible has been made fast to a mooring mast. With Captain Frank R. McCrary and Captain Anton Heinen, the German engineer-pilot, in charge, the Shenandoah, her nose about 200 feet above the ground, glided towards the apex of a huge mooring mast which stands some 1,500 feet west of the Lakehurst hangar. As the dirigible approached the mast, it dropped a steel cable. A ground crew of three officers and 15 men seized the cable and fastened...
There is some compensation for having one's nose ground into the sod two hours every afternoon for two months if that operation makes a place for one in collegiate football history. A pommelled ear aches the less when it hears the tribute of a cheer, and the pain of a twisted knee is forgotten if that knee helped to push the ball over the enemy's goal line. But what of the second team the black jersies, for whom there is endless drubbing and few cheers, plenty of pains and only a thin official notice...
Every figure in the story of Felix is defined with simple, unerring strokes. No character so much as shoves his nose in that he is not promptly pinned down and held up for inspection. We know them all and like practically all of them- Felix himself, sensitive, delightfully vain, adroit, an artist fundamentally, hugely enjoying a world which has little for him save hard knocks; his mother, capable, heroic, un- questioningly devoted; Grumps, the bibulous Scotch grandfather, one of the most keenly observed and original figures in recent literature; the histrionic and ineffective father; Godfrey, the actor-brother, with...
...romantic hero who fights for his nose and laughs in spite...