Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land. That deadness was precisely what gave World Court advocates hope of getting the U. S. in the Court this time. Senators Hiram Johnson of California, William Edgar Borah of Idaho and a handful of other bitter-enders, the ragged remnant of 1919, would orate against it, but nose-counters figured that well over the requisite two-thirds of the Senate would complaisantly go along with the President. In fact, approval of the World Court seemed so imminent as to impair the Administration's strategy of using this old subject as an oratorical bone for the Senate to chew...
...Carl Anderson, but the new character he had drawn for the first time looked even better. Henry's personality appealed to him. The very name somehow seemed ideal. Artist Anderson concentrated on Henry, perfected the simple lines of his domed head, big ears, full cheeks, skinny neck. Eyes, nose & mouth, indicated by circles and dots, formed an expression of sublime self-assurance, competence, unconcern. Henry, according to his maker, was not really bald; he Jiad just had all his hair shaved...
Theory of those sponsoring the device is that temperature governs the rate at which organic substances deposited on the ground disperse as scent particles. If the ground is too cold, the rate is too slow for the keenest nose; if too warm, the scent is soon all gone. Best condition for a detectable but lingering scent seemed to be moderately warm soil with slightly cooler air above...
David Copperfield (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). David Copperfield as a child is Freddie Bartholomew. As a young man, he is Frank Lawton. Rubbing together his malevolent hands, twitching his sly nose as Uriah Heep is Roland Young. Mr. Wickfield, the lawyer whom Uriah tries hard to cheat, is Lewis Stone. An obscure actress named Jessie Ralph performs magnificently as Nurse Peggotty, who comforts David when his mother dies and cares for his household when he marries. As Peggotty's brother Dan, who sets out to avenge Little Emily when David's friend Steerforth betrays her, Lionel Barrymore wears...
Uncomfortable with a cold in his nose last week was President Roosevelt. AAAdministrator Chester Charles Davis, FERAdministrator Harry Hopkins, House Majority Leader William Brockman Bankhead also had colds. Influenza and pneumonia had incapacitated so many Government officials and employes that Washington doctors broadcast warnings of a potential epidemic...