Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitten ears, he got third prize, while Mrs. Roesler's Little Madam got first prize Of the six dogs which were judged best of their respective groups, by far the most famed was Nunsoe Due de la Terrace of Blakeen. White as a snowdrift, except for his black nose and black eyes, Nunsoe Due de la Terrace of Blakeen is the fabulous French poodle, owned by Mrs. Sherman Reese Hoyt of Katonah, N. Y., which has won the championships of Switzerland, France, England, the U. S. His owner is fond of telling the story of how Nunsoe...
...Pittsburgh one morning went eagle-nosed Major-General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler, to speak at a banquet.* That same day Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante was appearing at a Pittsburgh theatre. Stepping off his train, General Butler thrust his head forward in characteristic pose, stomped down the platform. Loiterers, mistaking him for the well-publicized Durante, began to cheer. That evening nosey Comedian Durante turned up at the banquet where nosey General Butler was speaking. A cameraman snapped them nose to nose...
...nose-out, the Deacon basketeers looped a long one in the last minute of play for a victory over the Rabbits. The Gold Coasters, reinforced by Robert Kellerman Morse '35, a member of last year's varsity quintet, routed a Belmont Hill School contingent...
...Calvin B. Hoover, was appointed Consumers' counsel to AAA-with the understanding that the job would henceforth be different from what it was under Frederick Howe. Administration eyes were cast around to find innocuous jobs to appease Mr. Frank & friends. Yet Dr. Tugwell's nose was out of joint. He turned on a newshawk who remarked, "Well, you won't resign," and snapped...
...gang of altruistic milords who consider it their duty to rescue French aristocrats imperilled by the Revolution, uses as his signature. Versatile, altruistic, Sir Percy kidnaps deserving members of nobility on their way from dungeon to execution block. On business trips to France he disguises himself with a putty nose and the long skirts of a peasant crone. In London, visiting his tailor or attending prizefights, he behaves like an effeminate fop. The almost superhuman difficulties of his undertakings are increased for him by domestic troubles. He suspects his wife (Merle Oberon) of being sympathetic to the new regime...