Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When George Allen was appointed Commissioner of the District of Columbia by President Roosevelt he had the reputation of being closer to more Senators than any previous commissioner and Washington stuck up its nose at him as a pretty common variety of politician. Since then the Capital has revised its opinion. Commissioner Allen is credited with having done a good job of reorganizing local relief agencies. To solve the question of whether liquor stores shall be permitted in the wet-dry Tacoma Park section of the city, he has called an election, the first time since 1848 that Washingtonians have...
...general way Austrian-born Adolf Hitler was known to be moving warily about South Germany, watching every phase of the bloody crisis in his Motherland from a ringside position. But one morning Munich buzzed with an arresting rumor: "He talked last night to The Man With the Cleft Nose...
...Watching the dirigible Macon nose its way out of a cloud accompanied by two baby airplanes, hover overhead, drop a bundle of newspapers on the Houston, and head back for its Sunnyvale, Calif, base, 1,200 miles away...
...Deal friends are up for re-election to the Senate: Republican Bronson Cutting of New Mexico, Republican Hiram Johnson of California, Progressive Robert La Follette of Wisconsin. Last January the President publicly announced that he favored Senator Johnson's reelection, thus putting out of joint the nose of many an ambitious California Democrat. On his way back from Hawaii the President, speaking at Green Bay, Wis., is expected to put the stamp of his personal approval on Senator La Follette's candidacy...
...John Dillinger of the newspictures. His sandy hair had been dyed black. He had grown a mustache. His eyebrows were plucked, his pug nose straightened, his face "lifted." But these disguises did not fool Investigator Purvis. Thanks to a woman's tip, Investigator Purvis and 15 Federal agents were ready for Desperado Dillinger when he strode jauntily out of the Biograph Theatre two hours later. At the sight of men closing in on him from nowhere Dillinger whirled, reached for his gun, darted for an alley. A volley of lead cut him down in his tracks, one bullet through...