Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, the Cooks, who dearly loved royalty, had organized their Princes' Department, agreed that backdoor-wise Wagner was the man to handle footloose Maharajas. His duties: booking hotel suites, dispensing funds (Maharajas rarely carry a cent in their pantaloons), shooing away swindlers, for whom he has a keen nose...
Photographer Smith will not admit he is getting old. His hair is greying, but he still walks briskly, makes the most of his five feet five. (His small head, thick neck and beakish nose make him look something like an upright turtle.) But even when he is through with newspapering, Smitty will be all right. He claims he has $50,000 put away. His wife disapproves of him, except when he plays the accordion...
...Deal was gravely threatened, its Labor program was imperiled, its yardstick utility plan was circumscribed and back to the State machines went a great share of the political power that Franklin Roosevelt had spent six years gathering into Federal hands. Hardest blow of all landed on his nose, which the Senate feared he wanted to stick too far into international power politics...
Queerest air tragedy of recent months was the crack-up of No. 1 Mexican Airman Francisco ("Pancho") Sarabia in Washington last June. One moment his stubby Gee Bee Special, the Q.E.D. was winging smoothly above the Potomac River; the next, downfluttering like a stricken hawk, it rammed its nose fast in the river bottom. By the time rescuers reached him, Sarabia was drowned. Shaken by the loss of their idol, Mexican mobs growled darkly of sabotage...
...current warehouse strike, demanded that the warehouse operators and the C. I. O. make peace. The union replied with a suggestion that Editor Smith print the facts or mind his own business. Editor Smith countered with the announcement that "the Chronicle makes it its business to stick its nose into any so-called private row which affects the broad public interest." The union snapped back: "That being the case, we ask you to serve as mediator." Paul Smith did, and settled the strike...