Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jews grow a straight nose...
...answer is that he is a slender, grey-crested person with a Romish nose and a sartorial perfection suggestive of the stage. Who the hell is he? He was born on the Mother Lode of California 59 years ago and one of his parents had Mayflower ancestors. He is one of those persons who has been vaguely "associated with" and "closely allied with" various famous people. His biography gives a onetime State Engineer of New York, the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, and the late Major-General Leonard Wood, as references. He "has travelled in many parts...
While the Argentines were coming to top form in Westbury, and while the Americans who were later to nose them out in a one goal victory were bickering on club piazzas about who should be on the team, some excited women played polo at the Westchester Biltmore. Canadian women and U. S. ones, they were getting ready to play the first match in an international series; after the second match the team that had scored the greatest total number of goals would be declared the winner. The U. S. women won the first match by a score...
...house in which she lolled. She swayed a little and they had to be careful not to let her injure herself by bumping against the sides of the house. Out in the open, she made a noise somewhere between a purr and a roar, put her nose into the sky, was soon out of sight...
Said the New York Evening Post, "Take the fuselage of an ordinary airplane, stick into its sides a pair of garden spades, with the handles into the plane; put on the nose a propeller slightly smaller than the ordinary airplane propeller, and you have the autogyro, except for the pinwheel...