Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mingling of the two. -Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner A liner of almost 20,000 tons, the largest ever to nose through Norwegian fjords and visit the northmost Norwegian isle of Spitsbergen, returned last week to Manhattan, bearing some hundreds of tourists all able to boast that they had read newspapers at midnight by the light of what Norwegians call the Midnat Sol. To newsgatherers Captain Wilhelm Muller of this cruise ship, the Hamburg-American liner Reliance, confided that there had been a great difference in the reaction of the U. S. and German cruise passengers to the Midnight...
Small in stature, dark in complexion, he is?but for one feature ?undistinguished in appearance. The notable feature is a high nose which starts outward and upward from his face imperiously, as if pronouncing destiny upon all it surveys...
Captain Arthur V. Rogers, British destroyer of 32 German planes, jumped. He felt the canvas mechanism of his parachute start functioning.* He hit the ground, was picked up dead. Captain Rogers was testing the Angel of Los Angeles. He circled, went into a nose dive, saw the ground coming up to meet...
...Saratoga stable where he was being groomed for the morrow's Saratoga Special. Gaily he loped a practice mile, sniffed the cool air that smelled a little of horses and saddles, pranced off the track. A stable man leading him rubbed the horse's nose, then looked down at his hand quickly. It was covered with blood. Dice, suddenly tired, stood stiffly while bright red drops made a pattern on the damp turf. Four hours later, blood still pouring out of his nose from a lung hemorrhage, Dice died...
...wakes up next week to see the milkman's horse advancing down the block with a pince-nez on his nose one must not be surprised. The horse has become a four-eyed beast. The opening of the Saratoga, N. Y. Races was momentarily interrupted by Edward R. Bradley. Mr. Bradley announced (and he did not want anyone to laugh about it) that four of his horses, Barosa, Benedict's Vow, Billy Burke and Beneficient, were wearing spectacles...