Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paddocks at Rye, N. Y., last week craned their necks as far as halter straps permitted. A stranger was coming among them. He was an elderly gentleman rigged squarishly in black clothes; he wore gloves and a blocky black hat. One horse, a jumper, he patted on the nose. The horse wiggled the hairs on its lip. This stranger loved horses. He was, in fact Bishop William Thomas Manning who had gone with one of his daughters (Frances) to the opening of the second yearly Cathedral Horse Show. Earnings of the show fortify the endowment of the Sportsmen...
...introduction of the shoulder-sling to the East Side, supplanting the unlovely bulge to the back trousers pocket that had been decreed by police custom. He it was who did away with the old gangster's code, under which to pump a man's back full of soft-nose bullets had been a faux pas bordering upon actual cowardice...
Soon the Columbia developed engine trouble, was forced to glide down into a field gashed by a deep ditch. The ditch fouled the landing gear, tripped the plane which then buried its nose in the ground, its engine wrecked, its wings twisted. Miraculously, no one was injured...
...Secretary of the Treasury is that of causing to be struck, as soon as possible after inauguration day, a bronze medal bearing the new Presi'dent's likeness. No effort or money is spared to reproduce the last freckle, pock, line, whisker; the exact crook of nose, areas of baldness, hair part, ear convulsions, etc., for the Presidential medals constitute the official record of what each President looked like while in office. Until about ten years ago, the medals were called "Indian peace medals," hundreds of them being distributed to chieftains at the beginning of every administration. Presidential...
...photo-radio system. The picture was converted into sound waves; the sound waves were recorded on a dictaphone and "played" for radio audiences. Said the Governor: "The changing intensity of the sound corresponds to the shading of the picture. I guess that loud part is my nose. Now you know what it sounds like to look at my face." The National Association of Broadcasters, assembled at the Fair, heard themselves flayed by Commissioner H. A. Bellows of the Federal Radio Commission. Said he: "If anything could kill radio, it is the nature of the programs that have been broadcast...