Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...punched nose will usually stop bleeding if it is held between thumb and finger for a few moments, if cold water is sloshed into the face, if something cold is pressed against the back of the neck...
...neurotic young women are peculiarly susceptible. After exposure to cold, shock or insult, their fingers or toes turn white, feel icy, grow numb, hurt. Attacks last from a few minutes to an hour. After many attacks the fingers or toes decay, may drop off. Sometimes the tip of the nose, the ears, parts of the lip rot away...
Thorburn, 47, Manhattan ear-throat-nose specialist, is more cocky about osteopathy. A doctor of medicine, he once declined the invitation of a medical school to establish a full course in osteopathy, because the medical school refused to require six years for the osteopathy course. To the Cleveland convention he promised lots of publicity for osteopaths: "What osteopathy requires is the presentation of proper information to newspapers and magazines, and otherwise, and one of the most important steps in securing this is a personal understanding of osteopathy on the part of editors of newspapers and magazines. When this same knowledge...
...appeared that a blonde hussy had suddenly interrupted their tea. She startled them further by rapidly removing what seemed to be all her clothes, casting off her manacles with a bang, and spinning her long legs in an expert cartwheel scarce five feet from Mme Boverat's nose...
Last February when a 20,000-word banking bill was slapped down under the nose of Congress, the White House hastily disclaimed responsibility for the measure. Hence it was called the Eccles Bill after its sponsor, Marriner Stoddard Eccles. But because the Governor of the Federal Reserve Board was the New Deal's financial philosopher, the substance if not the form of its proposals was plainly the Administration's idea of what a Banking Act of 1935 should...