Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Vintila Bratiano, 60, has his late brother's massive, commanding stature, and merely lacks in face and feature a trifle of Jon's finely chiseled strength. The nose has not so elegantly satyrlike a tip. The beard and mustache are a shade darker grey and notably less neatly trimmed than were those of Jon. Finally Vintila's eyes seem contented within the shelter of his heavy brows. The eyes of Jon twinkled or darted lightnings...
...like that preposterous old South African, whose picture, displayed in advertisements or in his book, is now in so many homes-Trader Horn. He had the same shiny bald head, the beard that looks as if it had been doused in foamy soapsuds, the same sad mastiff eyes. His nose was shiny and a little bulbous. His speech had a genial and sarcastic tang for the silly staring people who came to see him, his mind retained a vast curiosity and with it inevitably, a courteous and inclusive scepticism, an uncertainty, an almost universal doubt. "He habitually formed so humble...
...Providence, R. I., newspaper reporter had stuck his nose-for-news into Caldwell's mount ing fame, reported how he had played for Brown as a freshman before entering Yale. By Yale's dual contract with Princeton and with Harvard, Caldwell can play no more Yale football. He can, however, play basketball & baseball in the winter & spring. †the same rules apply as in regular football except that it is unnecessary to tackle - a runner-with-the-ball...
...mouth were harboring a hot potato and says that in the way they talk around Boston, we laugh. That is only natural. But we also assume Harvard to have undergone adaptation to environment. A Harvard men must say "car" like a sheep with a cold in its nose, we think, simply because he likes to. Such a conception is false. Probably the Harvard man dislikes this snare-drum accent just as much as any one else, and yet is powerless to help himself because to make himself understood when strolling abroad among the winding alleys of Boston, he must talk...
...Revival. Altogether charming was the performance of Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel. Queen Mario was Gretel, a wee child with pigtails stiff as taffy sticks. Editha Fleisher was Hansel, just ragged and happy. There was a real witch with matted gray hair and a nose like a spigot who rode on her broomstick way into the sky and ate little children. There was a gingerbread house and a red-hot oven where plop ended the witch pushed by wee Gretel just too stupid to get in herself. "Hocus pocus. . . ." Children loved it. So did grown-ups who quite forgot...