Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in two Federal Courts, three U. S. Judges made rulings on the Prohibition law. In Chicago, Judges George T. Page and Albert B. Anderson of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that "nose evidence" is good evidence, that the mere smell of liquor in a restaurant is enough to cause that restaurant to be padlocked for a year. Law-abiding restaurant-keepers, must now employ detective- waiters to search customers for hip-flasks and hidden bottles before they serve them with cracked ice or ginger ale. Prohibition agents need no longer search and buy; they...
...definitely proved relation between the two diseases. Nor is there positive relation between encephalitis lethargica and infantile paralysis, although the infectious agent seems to be the same in both diseases. In fact, doctors do not know the cause. They think infection is spread by secretions from the nose and mouth. Because they are so ignorant in this case, they do not know sure ways of prevention. However, doctors do know this: most people are relatively immune to encephalitis lethargica...
...tugboat. He, Philip Gibbs of the London Daily Chronicle, was late in covering his assignment. Finally he reached the good ship Hans Egede, scrambled up a rope ladder. On deck, newspapermen talked about the North Pole in polyglot tongues. Mr. Gibbs introduced himself to a man with a heavy nose and queer eyes, who said: "Come and have some breakfast...
...pulmotor was not used, because : 1) His nose and mouth would have to be sealed ; 2 ) It would have a bad psychological effect on his morale; 3) It could not be so well regulated, since there was no spark of natural respiration...
...only, however, was the student forbidden to put his nose outside the door on Sunday to take a walk, he was not even allowed to dress up on occasions, even if these occasions were not on the Sabbath. In fact elegant dressing seems to have been one of the worst crimes on the Puritan Harvard calendar, as may be seen from the following...