Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...credentials at the White House last week. President Coolidge told him that the U. S. marines would not stay in Nicaragua "longer than is necessary." ¶As it must to some, rose fever came last week to President Coolidge. It causes a slight irritation in the membranes of his nose and throat. "It is not serious," said the physicians, "but it is annoying." ¶Dover (N. J.) Lodge No. 541 of the Loyal Order of Moose invited President Coolidge to become a member. His secretary despatched the following polite refusal: ". . . He [the President] is not, however, a member...
...Heflin replied, waving his arms like a fretful windmill, pushing a bound volume of newspapers off his desk, knocking the spectacles from Senator Mayfield's nose...
...whole there is very little variance from last year's statistics. In the class of 1927, nine and sixth-tenths percent of the men had had their appendixes removed while this year the percentage of the first year class is nine and one-tenth percent. Nose-throat operations have increased from 59 percent in the 1929 class to 62 percent in the Freshman class. There is still an increase in typhoid inoculations, the percentage increasing from 26.5 percent last year to 30.6 percent this year...
...some Andover friends, one of them a Princeton varsity player. Knowing my interest in the game, and my intention for coming out for the squad at Princeton, the talk turned to that subject. My brother Jim, in the Yale-Princeton game of the previous year, had had his nose severely pummelled, three ribs broken, his leg kicked, and bruised, and flesh gouged from his body. They laughed, and said: "Now that you are on the inside, we can tell you all about that. The night before the game, we, the football squad of Princeton, were shown a picture of your...
...Mount Prospect, 111., one Ernest Grimm, farmer, killed a skunk that nad long haunted the adjoining farm of his cousin, Edward Grimm. With clothespin on nose, Ernest Grimm skinned the skunk, hung the pelt in his barn. In the night Edward Grimm made off with the pelt. A skunk caught on his land, he remarked when he met his cousin next day, was his skunk. Words followed. In the lonely barnyard, Grimm fought Grimm. Ernest, with a slap of his hand, broke the nose, already inflamed, of Edward. Edward brought suit for $5,000 for assault and battery...