Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the identical little cream-colored biplane with a Wasp engine in its nose taxied out upon the field of the naval air station at Washington, D. C. Forty gallons of gasoline were in its tank. In the cockpit was no Icarus. Instead was an Apollo wearing no triple woolen under wear ? merely ordinary clothing cased ty a furlined flying suit, sheepskin boots, fur helmet, fur mittens, a mask with an oxy gen tube (his nostrils were plugged so that he must breathe through his mouth) and a pair of goggles with tiny holes in them so that...
...editors to go down to a watery grave. The race was finally run off at midnight and the Lampooners under the influence of the splendid half-moon grew too romantic and swam in the wrong direction. The reporters who lined the banks proclaimed the CRIMSON winner by half a nose for the five mile course...
Strong Willie Rohrer of Brooklyn was the most popular because they knew him. but strong Al Manger of Baltimore was the hero because he broke three records. After he had done so, the women (there were eight present) purred "Wunderbar, wunderschön"?and wished Al's nose were not big like his muscles. Big muscles, by that time, had grown commonplace...
...ambles toward the bar and, simply, lifts it. Sometimes he does not lift it much higher than his knees. In this case he puts it down, bows sadly to the audience. But if he succeeds in raising it, he holds it im mobile, and proudly, through his big nose, sniffs the stale...
...clenched my hands and tried not to scream. ... I opened my eyes, and I saw. It was his [the doctor's] face. Think of it! Two eyes and a nose and a mouth, just as I had felt them all these years...