Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whipped up heavy combers which rolled the ships gayly. In the greysome depths eels and fishes saw the huge barnacled steel whale shift about and sway in her bed like a restive sleeper, start behemothly for the surface. On the reeling decks above workers were astonished to see the nose of the sunken monster suddenly poke through the waves and into the sunlight once again. The crews cheered. In another moment the amidships pontoons appeared. It seemed that all that remained was to blow out the stern pontoons and tow the resurrected ship and her ghastly cargo back...
John North Willys, "one of the handsomest executives," the "Little Napoleon" of the automotive industry,* set his pince-nez back on his small, sharp nose. The bustle roused by several hundred enthusiastic Willys-Overland dealers convening at Toledo was slightly disheveling to this trim 53-year-oldster† who "builds automobiles, lives automobiles and talks automobiles." There was, however, no weariness in that long-lipped smile, which can caress a lackadaisical dealer into a "gogetter...
...evenings and received perfumed notes in the mornings he could hit hard and dodge adroitly. Last week for nine seconds Carpentier lay on his face in a ring in Philadelphia. At ten he got up. With his eyes glazed, his ears ringing, a cut in his cheek, and his nose oozing like a broken bottle he summoned the wraith of his courage and flailed, thumped, jabbed, socked, lashed at one Thomas Loughran, mick. Loughran won the decision. But the Philadelphia clients who saw the Frenchman helped to his corner glanced at each other in solemn agreement on an important fact...
...play in which a boy's lascivious and degenerate mother carried on under his and her husband's nose with her young paramour. (The Vortex...
...weeks ago she entered a beach hotel and reappeared in a bathing suit variously described as dark green or dark blue. She was a well formed woman and attracted many an idle eye. High-piled, unshorn dark hair; full, wide lips a little irregular; unusually white teeth; a generous nose; eager, long-lashed eyes-her description has been so minutely detailed that it is certain she prepared to go in swimming. Her bathing suit had a white edging around the armholes. It was a one-piece suit with the pretense of a short skirt. The trunks came down almost...