Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...club had just been inaugurated [in 1911] and a night set apart for the opening of the beautiful pool. The elite of Pittsburgh were in attendance; a polo game was the exciting event. I was merely a spectator on the side lines. Ruddy punched an opponent on the nose and a reciprocal punch from his swimming antagonist caused Ruddy's nose to bleed. . . . I ordered the swimmers out of the tank and they knew their master's voice. Like a lot of sardines they crawled to the dressing room...
...Ruddy, famed water polo coach of the New York Athletic Club, insists that he not only hit Pugilist Choynsky in the eye but that he could have hit him two or three times. He firmly denies that anyone hit him (Ruddy) on the nose. Ten years after the Pittsburgh incident Ruddy met Choynsky in Chicago and Choynsky challenged him to a public fight. Ruddy said he was willing if they could make any money out of it. Nothing happened...
Blaise Pascal, the French philosopher and mathematician, once ventured to suggest that if the nose of Cleopatra had been smaller the whole face of the earth would be different. It is debatable just how much influence the Queen's nose had in enchanting the beloved Anthony but that noses have had no small part in the making of individual and national history will go without question. So must is this fact recognized today that Professor Donald Laird of Colgate University is making a special research on noses. Undoubtedly many treasures are in store for him. To date his study reveals...
...will deny that the nose has had a significant role in deciding the fate of many unfortunate individuals in Germany today? Racial origins may be disputed, hands may be tied, but emigration statistics in the Fatherland show you can't fool Hitler on what a German's nose should be like. According to one news item, several of the tainted ones have tried to help matters by cultivating a mustache...
However, with the advent of modern science and new standards of charm, the nose has lost many of its powers. Yet in the Congo, it still plays an important part in attracting mates. The theory among the savages is that the eyes are fickle, but that once a man is nosed, all the anthropologists in Africa can't beak the spell. Where the nose has lost much is in its powers of prophecy. Time was, when our nose itched, we knew we were to hear good news be kissed by a fool, or take a long journey. Now we just...