Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quote from your issue of March 19: "Nervous, twitchetty, bespectacled, he has a big nose, prominent mouth, receding chin, looks like a fat-cheeked...
...bureaus, whose heads must necessarily be accessible and known. It is estimated that the service has working for it between 150 and 300 agents. Wild horses would not draw the correct number from Chief William Herman Moran. whose thick shock of white hair hangs over a hawk's nose and eyes, and whose close-cropped mustache covers a firm, silent mouth. He arrives in his office on the first floor of the Treasury Building at nine each morning. Through a barred window he can look across the lawn at the White House. When the lights wink...
Asked if his nose was insured against damage or less, the idol of a million maidens replied. "Yeah, it's insured all right Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer saw to that long ago. Do you know, they even insured it against theft. Can you feature anyone ever being able to keep my nose under cover?" queried Durante with a fetching smile...
...told youse I used to be a fighter, that's part of my hidden past. Yeah, it's true. I was getting along swell until my first fight when I found out my nose get in the way. I was going to walk out of the ring when the guy (jeez but he was a tough mug) popped me right in da puss. I guess I just wasn't cut out to be a battler...
...depicting such routine incidents as The Rising Bell, The Bucket Line, Gymnasium, The Hospital. The anonymity of the convict's life she expressed by failing to draw features on any of her figures' faces. Even a starched-capped keeper with pince-nez and key-ring had no nose, no eyes, no mouth...