Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince Hirohito, Regent of Japan, attended the Army maneuvers near Takama, caught cold. That was last 'November. Since then, the Prince's nose has 'been growing larger and larger...
Last week, it was announced that Postmaster General New would continue in office. Whether or not there was any connection, it was coincidentally announced that Mr. Slemp would retire. So the tall man with high forehead, prominent eyes, long nose, large chin, he who stalked through the corridors of the White House Office so swingingly with silk hat, cutaway and cane, will depart thence-but not to a great distance. He is to resume law practice with the firm of Good, Childs, Bobb & Westcott of Washington and Chicago (James W. Good, head of the firm, is a onetime Congressman from...
...clothes are shabby; he is unable to play any musical instrument; if in a ball game, the pitcher should "walk" him, it would take long for him to get to first base; but he is paid money, this dilapidated curmudgeon, for one distinguishing asset-the length of his nose. He smells news as a hound smells an opossum. He drew a circle in red crayon around the advertisement of Mr. Slack, threw it in a basket, sent it to the City Editor, who handed it to a Bright Young Reporter. To Stamford, Conn., hastened the B. Y. R. His nostrils...
...Crimson forward line, consisting of Captain Beals, Austin, and Hodder, is the best that Harvard has had in years. Austin leads the team in scoring, and Beals continues to show the way as the speed merchant of college hockey, Hodder has been suffering from an injured nose, but expects to play tomorrow night. His stickwork and checking are features of a strong all around game...
Inside, in the great warm hall, a shivering conductor shuffled his feet, besought silence; the lights of the entr'acte dimmed; still the great sound continued. In his dressing-room, a 28-ysar old U.S. baritone powdered his nose. Cast with the revered Scotti in the season's revival of Verdi's Falstaff, he had just ended the second act with the aria E sogno, in which he sets forth his suspicions that his spouse, Mistress Ford, is plotting infidelity with "that reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years," Falstaff (Scotti...