Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mighty Jack Demp-sey- traveled from city to city in the U. S. Every night but Sunday she performed a strange rite. Entering a small cubicle engaged for her in advance, she closed the door, molded a blob of wax, placed it on the bridge of her flattish nose. She fastened flesh-tinted court-plaster to her slanting eyes, creamed and powdered her broad cheeks, all so deftly that an Indo-European girl, or at most a Eurasian, left the dressing-room where a little Nipponese had gone in. Not until she reached Detroit last week was real attention paid...
...characters all spring vividly to life, led by June Walker who, though brunette by birth and nature, offers a perfect performance as the cooing, wide-eyed, traveling siren, Lorelei Lee. Edna Hibbard's saucy nose, jaunty figure and coon-shouting voice add immensely to the personality of Lorelei's hard-boiled girlfriend, Dorothy, upon whose caustic nature has been fathered the echo: "Brunettes prefer gentlemen...
...that (by internal evidence) he was 1) a socially unsuccessful classmate of Mr. Whitney's; 2) someone with a grudge, albeit a gay one, for the Harvard history department; 3) an intimate of the secretaries and other underlings of Harvard officials; 4) a clever Jew with a nose for the sensational...
...ring, grew harder; how Dempsey kept weaving in, pawing at Tunney with fierce, ineffective blows; how people spread newspapers over their knees and passed bottles from hand to hand; how Tunney outboxed Dempsey, poked him off with wary blows, closed his left eye, cut his cheek, made his nose bleed. In the last round, with a tremendous effort, Dempsey fired his weariness into a rally and swung a right for Tunney's jaw. If that blow had connected the Dempsey-Tunney fight would have been remembered as the most sensational ten-round bout ever fought. Tunney ducked. Thirty seconds...
...ring, grew harder; how Dempsey kept weaving in, pawing at Tunney with fierce, ineffective blows; how people spread newspapers over their knees and passed bottles from hand to hand; how Tunney outboxed Dempsey, poked him off with wary blows, closed his left eye, cut his cheek, made his nose bleed. In the last round, with a tremendous effort, Dempsey fired his weariness into a rally and swung a right for Tunney's jaw. If that blow had connected the Dempsey-Tunney fight would have been remembered as the most sensational ten-round bout ever fought. Tunney ducked. Thirty seconds...