Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never experienced such a comfortable journey, either by train, sea or car, and I thoroughly enjoyed every moment. One can powder one's nose in an airplane as easily as in a dressing room. When I wasn't watching the scenery beneath, I spent most of my time reading or in writing letters...
February 27--"How the Nerves, Eyes, Nose and Throat may be Affected by the Teeth." Dr. George H. Wright '03, Assistant Professor of Dentistry, Harvard University...
...carriage as the men wrenched open the right-hand door. A machete hurtled, split the leather of the President's left heel, bit into his flesh. The coachman, faithful, sprang from his box, fell upon the attackers. Maddened, they felled him, slashed off his hands, his nose, gouged out his eyes. . . . As policemen arrived the two attackers fled, unidentified. President Diaz rushed to the coachman who had saved his life, lifted the man into his carriage, climbed onto the box himself, drove furiously to the nearest hospital. Not until the dying coachman had been attended to did President Diaz...
...months ago a limp figure, bleeding from ear, nose, jaw, forehead, was carried to a Manhattan hospital, almost dead. They registered him as Lawrence Buermeyer, instructor in philosophy at New York University. He had been discussing philosophy with his friend since college days at Princeton, Joseph Carson Jr. of Columbia University's philosophical faculty. They had been drinking grain alcohol and water as they argued. Philosopher Buermeyer's wounds, inflicted with a shoe, fists, a milk bottle, a broom, were the tokens of a disagreement. Philosopher Carson, having confessed, was put under $10,000 bail (TIME...
...Menominee, Mich., one Prince, 35-pound collie, heard his master, Farmer Methad Dvoracek, screaming in the barn; bounded in, flung himself at a 1,500-pound bull which had Farmer Dvoracek cornered, prostrate and already gored; seized the bull's nose, hung on while being flailed about until a chunk of nose and the bull's ring tore away, leaped for another grip, drove the bull outdoors bellowing, bounded to the kitchen door, barked, led help to Farmer Dvoracek...