Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mature Klemperer last winter and Los Angeles pronounced him great for his Beethoven, his Brahms. He still looked like a dark, fanatic prophet but he had modified his gestures save for stirring climaxes when he jerked his head so violently that his ill-fitting glasses kept falling down his nose...
...founded United Fruit Co., and a salvage company whose president, Thomas P. Connolly, had invented a new kind of diving-suit. Weighing 675 Ib. on deck, the suit has a head and body of steel, with grotesque protuberances for eyes and something that looks like a nose. Of rubber reinforced by interwoven copper strips, the arms and legs become flexible when subjected to high underwater pressure. The two parts of the suit join at the waist instead of around the neck. The diver goes down without an airhose, carries an oxygen bottle, a respirator, caustic soda to absorb carbon dioxide...
...Reids invited her to take charge of the Herald Tribune magazine. The magazine is said to be a money-loser at present, but beyond doubt it pulls substantial circulation. Like Helen Reid, "Missy" Meloney is small and indomitable. She is warm, friendly, with arge brown eyes and a hawk nose...
...notes, police chances of catching the extortionist were increased a hundredfold. Not only the Lindbergh money but all gold bills automatically became "hot." The problem had been simplified, but by no means solved. In August $2,980 of the Lindbergh notes were converted into legitimate currency right under the nose of the New York Federal Reserve Bank without leaving a clue. But all the police needed to send them pouncing on their man was a telephone number, an address, an automobile license...
Bruno Richard Hauptmann fitted the image of the Lindbergh kidnapper almost to a T. He had the flat face, the pointed nose, the small mouth. He weighed 180 lb. He had worked in The Bronx lumber yard whence came the scantlings in the kidnapper's ladder. He was, indeed, a carpenter. Under the floor and in the walls of his garage was found $13,750 more of the ransom money. The taxi-driver remembered him in a minute. "Jafsie" Condon made a "partial" identification. Handwriting experts agreed that the lettering in the ransom notes unquestionably matched samples of Bruno...