Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...larger plugs. At last two wooden discs as large as soup plates, each edged with stretched lip, will hang down from the beautified face, almost prevent speech, and render eating extremely difficult. Complete the beautification by filing the teeth to sharp points and hanging a ring in the nose. Then, in the French Colony of Senegal, West Africa, the woman so adorned may expect to command an excellent price from a wife-seeker...
...covered the mile and a half in 2 min., 34 2/5 sec., had established a new record for the English Derby on the Epsom Downs course. Two lengths behind Call Boy's nose finished Sir Victor Bassoon's Hot Night...
...well be asked, with all these far-reaching agencies right under his nose cannot the young journalist gain a first hand and accurate conception of politics which will be invaluable to him when he throws his own hat in the political ring? Unfortunately this young journalist will find no "open sesame...
Last autumn a senator was overwhelmingly elected from a middle western state. The whole question in his election was whether or not he had some 15 years before, punched a certain police commissioner's nose. There are many similar instances, too many to detail here. They all point to the fact that the issue on which a man is elected to public office is frequently one on which he will never pass when he takes office and that if he has the really desirable qualities for his office he has them fortuitously and does not promulgate them to his constituents...
Take that great political issue of whether or not the police commissioner's nose was punched. This was the issue and the successful candidate's handling of it was largely responsible for his victory. But let us not be misled into thinking that this was the only cause. At the bottom of many political victories is the well-organized machine. And this too will not be seen in Washington. The machine, depending on the size of the candidate's campaign contributions and on the skill with which he handles the patronage in his district, is the broad foundation stone...