Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...common stock was owned by employes of the company who, more than usual investors, would be hurt. To such levy there was of course the resource of all business people in such a quandary, to borrow on all free real estate, on reputation, and to pay through the nose usurious interest rates, commissions, brokerages, bonuses...
Many a poet has been tempted and won by the obvious comparison of an "expensive" or "four-bottle" nose with the glorious ruddy hues of autumn foliage. Last week Science stripped the thought of its poesy by proclaiming that the similitude has a chemical basis. Alcohol, announced Chemist S. G. Hibben of the Westinghouse Lamp Co., is produced in leaves by a fermentation that sets in when plants reach a cycle of life during which they reject sunlight regardless of the weather...
...menceau. "An Asiatic? At first glance he seems one . . . with his yellow skin, his saddle-nose between prominent cheekbones, and his Tartar moustache . . . a bully out of Brittany . . . an all too aged Cyrano . . . sitting by the fireside, in his peasant boots and grey suede gloves . . . uttering harsh words of scorn . . . the Prussianest of Frenchmen! . . . I could show you letters of German generals and princes who sigh: 'If only we had a German Clémenceau...
...Patsy. Barry Conners wrote a play called Applesauce, which Chicago took to its heart and nourished for some 27 weeks. When the entertainment turned to Manhattan that suspicious and exacting metropolis hoisted its nose and said no. The Patsy had a similar background of authorship and Chicago success. The metropolis viewed it tepidly before the opening. Whereupon it turned out to be a decidedly amusing U. S. comedy of love and kindred complications, and Broadway critics were pleasantly and enthusiastically surprised. Perhaps they liked the leading actress best of all. She is Claiborne Foster, a capable young miss more...
...London recently Professor Joseph Barcroft, world authority on chemical reactions of the blood, stepped out of a glass case. His face, arms, lips, ears and nose had turned blue. His torso was a barrel of barred indigo; his legs two uncertain aquamarine tendrils; even his nails were blue. He looked like a figure from a futuristic painting. But this blue man laughed, chatted and showed to admiring fellow-scientists the notes of observations he had made on his blood-reactions during the week he had spent in that glass case. His blueness was caused by the fact that the case...