Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...saved the life of the insane Englishwoman, Miss Violet Gibson, who thrust a revolver at his face and actually shot away the tip of his nose (TIME, April 19) by ordering the crowd which would have lynched her to disperse peaceably...
...Franklin, N. C., one Harry Sorelle, driver of an ox team, fell out of his wagon, held on to the lines, was dragged down a dirt road. Dust sprayed from the rapid hoofs of the oxen, rose from his body in a cloud, filled his nose, mouth, eyes, throat. He dropped the lines, lay gasping in the road for a moment, then, after a terrible convulsion, stopped breathing. The coroner reported death by smothering...
...success of his children's book startled every one. This season he has another book, with Christoper Robin doing things all through it with Winnie-the-Pooh. Winnie was Christopher's favorite Big Bear called "Pooh" because of a noise made blowing flies off his nose...
Nasty little urchins tickle your nose with feathers as you parade Mass. Avenue on your way to morning classes, and shout indescribable things about showing your true colors. And every Thursday you begin in see red, in every store window for miles around...
Died. Harry Greb, 32, onetime (1923-26) world champion middle-weight boxer; sole man to defeat (1922) James John ("Gene") Tunney; at Atlantic City; of heart failure, following an operation on the nose...