Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...board the Olympic, the Baron stuck his nose into the royal apartment. Said he: "This is too pretty for me. I'll give this to Trotter [groom in waiting...
...discriminations and irregularities in the income-tax law itself. The individuals shrewd enough to have put their fortune into tax-exempt securities, or to have diverted their income into increased corporate surpluses or appreciated land values, escaped lightly. The blunderers who accepted large cash profits directly paid through the nose. The result was what everyone (except perhaps the farm bloc) had predicted. Meanwhile, publication of the returns created so much uproar as to constitute a public nuisance...
...newspaper to be without at least one redeeming feature. For a moderate consideration, any city editor can now have a model of sincere, constructive, idealistic thought and writing against which to contrast the "blowsy," "slipshod" language of the news columns, the "drivel" he lets "slide under his nose," the "transparent absurdities," the "trivialities and puerilities." To his vulgar, ignorant cub reporter, a city editor may now say: "Go thou and read our column by Mr. Mencken and be a better...
...grandstand, past the judges' stand they thundered, and it was seen that Sarazen led all the rest. A length and a half behind Sarazen, a nose ahead of brown Mad Play, came Epinard, runner-up a third time in the international races for which he crossed the Atlantic. Came Altawood, Princess Doreen, Little Chief, My Play, Chilowee...
When it took the air next morning, its arrogant nose was pointed at the Rockies. The morning's flying was serene enough, over Texas to Tucson and Cochise, Ariz.; but in the late afternoon the mountains were reached, over which a wind was whistling jauntily. High in air climbed the dirigible, entering the Dragoon Pass; there was a great peak just as high that loomed out of the dusk, a black and ominous spike such as affrights the keels of lowlier boats, hard on the starboard side. "Left," signaled Commander Landsdowne on the bridge; the rudders turned, the Shenandoah...