Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nose...
...Haven, Conn., one Frank Fusaris, grocer, saw one Angelo Cavallaro, barber, fingering his nose. Infuriated, the grocer leaped at the barber, chewed off the offensive nose, spat out the blood. Last week the courts fined him $5,000 mayhem damages, in favor of Barber Cavallaro...
...toes. It is the city that a man curses when he finds a parking ticket on his car, when his car is stolen, when he gets dust in his eye, when the street sprinkler squirts his new suit, when his son comes from the public school with a bloody nose, when his son cannot go to school because of a measles epidemic...
Slender, getting bald; a wart on the left side of the nose. Protruding ears, sallow coloring. That is Isaac Shapiro, famed swindler, seven times convicted thief, now at large. That is also William Feit, honest salesman. Arraigned, Salesman Feit stood in court. Bondsmen, victims, detectives, policemen, identified him as Swindler Shapiro. He said he was innocent. Even his lawyer did not believe him. He faced life sentence. Honest Feit looked evilly around the court, whispered something to his lawyer, one Emmanuel Celler. Lawyer Celler, realizing that his client was sure to be convicted, put a fingerprint expert on the stand...
...position can hardly disregard these facts. At every turn in the world struggle for oil America's hand has been called. She now faces a situation economically dangerous in the extreme due fundamentally to European eleves ness in taking advantage of an American provincialism which cannot see before its nose, or rather beyond the narrow limits of the Atlantic and the Paciffe. The necessity for international point of view toward and understanding of the world problems has heretofore has little appeal to the unidealistic American. When expressed-in terms of the pocket-book it may be driven home, even...