Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is meant by "no loop in his nose" under article headed "Boy" in TIME...
...realize that your Christian Christ had a "loop in his nose," and for the same reason that I have one in mine? Your innuendo is powerless to affect the pride of a Jew in the symbol of his race...
...association with the efforts of famous men had somewhat addled his brain. He did not realize that clocks do not run backwards smoothly. And so his glorious historical pageant merely peeps groggily from behind the swinging pendulum. We catch a fleeting glimpse of Arthur's nightshirt and Cyrano's nose, but they are distorted to no effect. Yet Lampy slumbers on. He snores. He wheezes. The shades of the past present themselves in a villianous, not to say poisonous, gallimafray...
...with all due respect to the efforts in that direction of Messrs. Hubbard and Hardwick. One, Braden, who entered Harvard in the autumn of 1920 and graduated in 1926, accuses the 1919 Princeton team of having, intentionally and with malice afore-thought, inflicted damage to his big brother's nose, to the cost of $1000. This was all done by means of making the Princeton players familiar with the outlines of Jim Braden's nose from photographs, blue-prints and blackboard drawings. "Whenever you see that nose, sock it", the young gentlemen from Princeton were instructed...
Clear-voiced,§ Mrs. Ferguson rose to speak. Her black eyes glittered like beads behind the octagonal lenses at either side of her hawk nose...