Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curious reader (I use the singular advisedly), are thoroughly familiar with the external aspects of your college. With the exception of the Geology Museum there is no building on your campus into which the inquisitive Freshman has not poked his eager nose by the first of October. You know every hole in the sidewalks of Spring Street. You call the open-handed shopkeepers by their first names. You say, "Hi, Toughey!" to every one you pass on the street. You know all the professors at least by name. You have definite places to eat your meals...
...Shearer, whose wife, sharp of nose and tongue, came from Péche à Agneau in the island of Sark, ran the George. Daniel, his son, was the friend of Ernley Munk, the heir to the Crown...
...face known to all followers of U.S. sport peered over a fence in Lexington, Ky., with a certain wistfulness apparent in the droop of the long-veined nose, the expression of the black-circled eyes. It is true that the owner* of this countenance has for some time been leading a life of considerable luxury, but it was in no way responsible for the melancholy that saddened his visage. His regret was caused by the fact that his father and mother were at that moment being sold at auction in a meadow three miles away. No one was so heartless...
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...could have interpreted. But the pen made a stroke for a dot, left a blank for a dash, gradually moving to the right over the rotating cylinder. Those who watched saw black masses shape into a cap, an eye, a mustache, another eye, a shadow by the nose-it was a portrait of Admiral Robert E. Coontz, U. S. N., then in Hawaii serving as umpire in the U. S. "war game" (TIME, May 4, 11, ARMY & NAVY). When his picture was finished, the pen began again, sketched some U. S. soldiers at mess under the glaring Hawaiian...