Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chamberlain cabled reply that the Foreign Office had the matter under close scrutiny. The strike, the embargo, continued. And the masters and merchants of the city by the sweet lagoon seemed to see a thumb at every Chinese nose...
...certain fire, a fireman is suffocated from smoke. His pulse was beating and he was breathing. Dr. Arrowsmith gave him a hypodermic of strychnine and held ammonia to his nose...
Next day she had the pleasure of seeing her picture in The New York Times?romanesque nose, sagging eyes, together with the skinny neck and long horselike upper lip which are so often the characteristics of the more unfortunate female members of the British nobility. She saw herself described as "a pretty young woman." The Daily News (for gum-chewers) went even farther afield...
...thumb at every Chinese nose...
...General" Ben McKenzie, local wit and humorist, dressed in a blue seersucker suit, peered down his nose and through his glasses perched thereon and in a high, rasping, querulous voice began the fight. The Court seemed in considerable doubt as to what he was driving at. But when he sneered at the laws in the "great metropolitan City of New York" and in "the great white city of the Northwest," Lawyer Malone said: "We object. ... I do not consider further allusion to the geographical parts of the country as particularly necessary. . . . We are here rightfully as American citizens...