Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family has modeled the hairless heads of statesmen, patriots, murderers and heroes in clay, cast them in wax, fitted them with wigs, glass eyes and mustaches, painstakingly tinted them to the life. Reporters visiting Miss Stuberg's studio found the young encausticist still at work on the nose of Albert Einstein. In a special post of honor was the head of Mae West and on shelves, ready to be mounted, were the staring heads of Los Angeles' own heroes: Will Rogers, Lon Chaney. Adolphe Menjou, Lawrence Tibbett, Bela Lugosi...
...naked performance, took cognizance of the importance of the burlesque stripper by sending Cecelia Ager, its star woman reporter, to interview the highest paid, best-known stripper in Burlesque. The navel of svelte Italianate Anne Corio is as well known to a large section of the public as the nose of Jimmy Durante...
...German blacksmith, Chicago's "Flying Dutchman" Jay Berwanger, who wears a white mask to protect a nose broken in his freshman year, found Illinois backs alert against passes, Illinois linemen on guard against power plays. Galbreath's touchdown in the first period won for Illinois...
...telephone is one of the most versatile machines ever devised. It's much more fun to play with while awaiting a call. You can play roulette with it, you can do if one-handed, one-fingered, in fact a man in New York once called a number with his nose...
Hope of conquering infantile paralysis first arose in 1910 when Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research discovered the virus which causes the disease. He found it in the mucous membranes of the nose and throat, and suspected that it might exist along the olfactory nerve. Not until last year did Dr. Maurice Brodie of Manhattan and Dr. Arthur Roland Elvidge of McGill University discover that the virus did travel up the olfactory nerve to the brain, then to the spine...