Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...critics have called long and loudly for official odes, but all in vain; the public, expectant and steeped in Kiplingisms, unjustifiably muttered uncomplimentary things and turned up its collective nose at what Dr. Bridges did give it. The matter became serious; the murmuring grew to open and vociferous criticism. The public grievance was even aired in Parliament. But all this fuss and pother was to no avail. When the "old man" on Boar's Hill heard about it, he said unpoetically: "I don't give a damn!" When the public heard that, it rather liked it. and settled...
...Pictures. In the crowded gloom of Dance in a Madhouse, lunatics jostle. An old man with a bald head and a long, sharp nose grins and capers, holding a woman in white whose face is twisted into a grotesque horror of mirth. Around them the mad people sprawl, each one tasting some sly, thoughtful obscenity, and a man whose hand is a pointed nightmare gapes at a tiny woman...
...Place d'lena, Paris, almost under the bronze nose of George Washington's horse,* a group of notable Frenchmen gathered around a hollowed building stone last week. They were men potent in French science, politics and industry. Mingled among them, like atoms of a great molecule of reverence, were diplomats of foreign countries. The nucleus of their thoughts was the stone...
...Belt. If Henry Ford can take time enough off from supervision of his new motor car, he can see a new playwright* thumbing his nose at him (both hands), wiggling & waggling his fingers. Would Mr. Ford be interested? Many people thought not. He might see himself (unmistakably, although he is called simply "The Old Man") facing a revolt of his workmen with nine months' starvation before them as the works shut down. Previously they have been deadened to sub-mediocrity by the ceaseless sameness of their years of labor; finally, militia marches them to jail. There is also some...
...would go home and paint pictures in his bedroom. The critics, who saw his "Scene from the Scottish Highlands" hung with 119 other U. S. paintings, could believe that its creator had never attended art school. They wondered whether it was an eye for a picture or a nose for a news story that had caused the committee to honor his effort. There was no easy facility of technique, no allegiance to academic methods in his picture, as stiff and formal as a photograph, of little girls skipping and hopping to a piper's tune...