Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admirer of TIME and a follower of Luther, I take exception to having friend A smack friend B on the nose by calling him a "peasant" (TIME, Sept. 17, p. 9) for no reason which is obvious to the reader. The term is extremely misleading and smells too much of the rustic and ignorant as aptly to apply to a brilliant historic character...
...officers watched intently Signor Turati's earnest smooth shaven face, his prominent nose, his sparkling eyes; listened to his words, and were impressed...
...Pocatello, Idaho, a big Fokker monoplane banked too steeply, tipped, put its nose into the ground, turned over three times. Four men, a mother and her two children were killed (five of them instantly...
...this year's Nominees for President of the U. S. spent several anxious hours last week on the mezzanine floor of the Hotel La Salle, Chicago. He frowned often, conferred with friends, stared down his nose, hovered near a closed door behind which a meeting of his party's national executive committee was in session...
...paintings, plays cricket in his spare moments, Zuloaga's sport is the sport of Spain. He was a bullfighter once and it was after the warm afternoon many years ago when a bull who had gored the young matador stood beside him to be killed, his nose pushed with a gesture of ignorant apology against the man's bloody shirt that Zuloaga chose a weapon lighter than the sword...