Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...driver jumped down, ran over to Frey, shouted: "Oh, it's all right is it? Well I don't think it is!" punched August Frey's nose so hard that August Frey fell flat again...
...possible (if unlikely) that famed Charles Evans Hughes had turned dog fancier, it was an inconceivable as well as an impudent coincidence that the dog 'should bear so exact a facial resemblance to his master. Yet there it was, the calm, thoughtful visage, the long, sagacious nose, Herald Tribune readers whispered, "They're as like as two Chinamen...
...Koilikuntla, India, the soft padding paws of leprosy touched the face of a betel-nut dealer, name unknown. As he sat by himself, as he fingered the decayed horror of his nose and mouth, there arose in his mind a hideous obsession. At last he gathered some companions about him. Mumbling with loose, torn lips, he made his thoughts clear to them. "I," said...
Soon Mr. Broun wired the news paper that he was "on strike" and ceased writing on any topic. Mr. Broun contended that "If I do not thumb my nose at the World's pet projects,"* he should be allowed freedom in his column. The World said No; said that in the reader's mind whatever he finds in a newspaper he credits to that Coolidge newspaper. says in "Did the you see World...
...stop functioning. Peering in over the muddy mixture, he saw that a stone had lodged in the machinery. Practical; he crawled inside to remove the stone. Alert, a fellow-laborer noticed the machine was idle. Dutiful, he started it working. After three minutes, Laborer Lacey, his mouth and nose bubbling cement, his clothes torn completely off, his body cut and bruised, made his shrieks heard, was rescued...