Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compounds (such as diphenylchloroarsine, diphenylcyonoarsine). In small concentrations, these gases have a sternutatory (sneeze causing) effect and in larger concentrations cause acute pain similar to but more violent than that caused by fresh water getting into the nose while bathing. An accompanying symptom is appalling mental distress and misery. They are rarely fatal, but very difficult to control with respirators, owing to the fact that the molecules, moving very slowly, can get through the walls of most masks in effective quantities...
From the St. Paul Dispatch, there appeared a highly amusing story, by Reporter Julian Sargent, about "the girl of the athletic nose" ; from the Baltimore Sun, an ingenious piece involving a Chinaman whom the police mistook for a Yellow Peril when he did his own surveying for a new laundry...
...They needed a songbird in Heaven, so God took Caruso away" -so runs the catch line of a onetime popular song-a ditty which was scratched from every phonograph, mewed through the sinus cavities of every cabaret tenor who could boast a nose, caroled by housewives at their tubs and business men at their shaving. Before the echoes of the blatant dirge had been quite relegated to that mortuary of all songs - the monkey-organ - certain tenors were beginning to thud their chests in the press. To compare many with Caruso is, of course, absurd. But there are, in Manhattan...
...possible for a man to indulge in a bit of dicing, cock-fighting or rum-swigging without having the local gendarmerie about his ears and the stink of the Watch and Ward Society's hired liars in his nose...
...Arbor, Mich., one Dr. John Sundwall, Health Officer, warned against handshaking, declared that disease lurks in friendly salutations, that handshakers are purveyors of death, described how secretions of the nose and mouth pass to the hands. Said he: "The average man's hands are contaminated with these secretions. A man who has the infection and whose hands are contaminated meets and shakes hands with a friend. Shortly after, the other's fingers go to his mouth. The route of transmission is completed...