Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Radnopsky passed to Hyman, and Sankoff smeared Lenine: Bloomfield punted to Stoneman, and Strauss paired up with Stein: Stronopsky plunged through tackle, twice stopped by Tony Rose: Bernstein made a forward pass, but disarranged his nose. The Yale Record
...discovered four evidently royal cadavers of the pre-Indian Mound Builders, lying among quarts and quarts of fresh-water pearls and many polished and carved stone pipes (TIME, Sept. 21). Absence of weapons reaffirmed the belief that the Mound Builders cultivated chiefly the arts of peace. A copper nose on one corpse, patterned cloths under the bones, demonstrated two of these arts...
...Yarmouth town council, it was proposed to name certain highways, Copperfield Avenue, Steerforth Avenue. Peggoty Road, and Barkis Road. One of the more stalwart of the councillors, Jack Salmon, fish salesman by trade, condemned Barkis as a "silly old pup" and a "drunken rascal with a red nose". He spared Steerforth his denunciation only because he did not know the gentleman's reputation...
Faced with such truculence within its ranks, the Cabinet resigned, "ousting" M. Caillaux by a process which superficially resembled cutting off its head to spite its nose. Actually the process was not so rash, for President Doumergue promptly called upon M. Painlevé to step up again into the Premiership from which he had momentarily stepped down...
Speaking of athletics, Mr. O'Hara paid tribute to the fighting spirit displayed by the football team last Saturday. "Although Harvard was nosed out by Dartmouth last Saturday--by a rhinoceros nose--I think that athletics are now on a sounder and more honest basis than was the case ten years...