Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy, strictly male organiza- tion, kept a secret. For some time plans had been brewing to land the giant dirigible Los Angeles on the deck of the aircraft carrier Saratoga. So delicate and important was the experiment that news was guarded until the trick was turned. Nosing out to sea last week the Los An-geles met the Saratoga off the Virginia Capes. Both headed into the light, gusty wind. The dirigible dipped gently, close to the carrier; then bucked like a frightened horse. A vagrant gust tossed it 200 feet in air. Again it angled downward, its sensitive nose...
Naval bigwigs congratulated Com-mander Charles E. Rosendahl of the Los Angeles exultantly. The test proving that floating filling stations are feasible, widened immeasurable the range of dirigible utility. Commercial dirigible interests eagerly proclaimed that transoceanic airship travel was a more immediate probability now that dirigibles may nose safely down to the vast smooth expanse of landing deck superimposed on aircraft mother ships. The flying deck of the Saratoga is 880 ft. long; the Los Angeles...
...times, in the name of the British Raj, he called on the revolted prisoners to surrender. Their reply was a tile, deftly hurled, which bruised painfully Jail Superintendent Major Dhondy. "Fire!" he commanded, and before the machine gun ceased to rattle, 16 prisoners had been wounded. Cowed, the desperate nose-nippers surrendered...
...Smart details: a) ingenious, decorated sleeves; b) tiers and flares; c) fluttery bows, ties, scarfs; d) elaborate shoes of exotic leathers or cloths; e) hats mostly of straw, with some felt & straw combinations, many worn with a new nose veil effect...
Died. Anthony Rousch Mills, 77, potent westerner; at Sundance, Wyo. "Thirty years back," Mills, climbing a trail in the Black Hills, encountered a grizzly. The bear lunged; bumped the shot gun over a ravine; bit off Mills's nose; seized him by the leg and started to drag him over the rocks. The hardy Mills stopped the flight by catching at a tree. Pulling his knife, he turned over and cut the bear's jugular vein...