Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insurance paid out totaled four million rubles ($2,000,000). The peasant explains with a wink: "The peasant's cottage soon grows sick and draughty. Then comes a fire-is it an accident? The peasant gets a fine new home from the Government." A cogent scratch of the nose and then a conclusion: "They take taxes and fix a low-price for grain, but little Uncle Fire is free from their control...
Senator Caraway of Arkansas had a newsstory of the affair read into the Congressional Record, refraining carefully, save for a characteristic wrinkling of his nose, from any comment. But South Carolina's Senator Blease blurted: "Didn't I warn my audiences in the South in the last campaign that this would happen, if Hoover should be elected? ... I told them Negroes would be eating in the White House next!" Other Southern Senators, including Texas' Sheppard, Alabama's Heflin, Mississippi's Harrison, "deplored" the event, viewed it as a "recognition of social equality," warned of "infinite...
Below medium height, with crinkly greying hair, stooped shoulders, prominent nose, drawly disarming voice, he writes with a sharpness and penetration that belie his mild appearance. As a political prophet he ranks low, for he alone of the major forecasters held out hope last year of a Brown Derby triumph. That, however, will be no handicap for him in his new post...
...Morgan Foster Larson of New Jersey is making substantial repairs to his summer home at Seagirt, N. J. Reason: Last week an airplane piloted by William Taft, Red Bank, N. J., zoomed into the roof, pierced it, stopped with its nose four feet from the empty gubernatorial bed. Greatly alarmed was the Governor's mother, 86, who was about to enter the Governor's bedroom...
...despoiled of his property, but the Cuban Government refused to make redress and, vexed by his pestiferousness, expelled him from the island. Not only did Mr. Barlow appeal to the U. S. State Department for assistance, but he rowed with Secretary Kellogg whom he threatened to "bust on the nose." Now bent, irritable, old, $5,000,000-Claimer Barlow professes himself reduced to beggary, from which the Slemp & Sanders names must rescue...