Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hulking, baldish, good-natured young man with the nose and neck of a Roman Senator, Artist Brook is no stranger to the galleries. For more than a decade he has been giving shows, winning medals, selling pictures to museums. In 1931 the Whitney Museum gave him its official accolade by publishing a monograph on his work. In Philadelphia last week the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts was pleased to hang some of his canvases in its 129th annual show. In the Manhattan show were 22 more Brook landscapes, figures, portraits...
...eleven terrific months in office have left on the President's face. The smile is as bright as ever but the flesh has aged perceptibly. Colds have caused the President most of his trouble. Last April he was forced to remain indoors for two days with a congested nose and sore throat. In July a slight cold helped him lose two of the seven pounds which he had picked up during his sailboat vacation. In September another head cold and touch of fever again confined him to bed & study, and left a hangover which required a weekend...
Pretending that George Washington had come for a medical examination, Professor Walter Augustus Wells, Washington, D.C. ear-nose-&-throat specialist, worked up a medical case history of the First President. The finished "history" he published last week in Hygeia...
...crew scrambled out upon the ice with fire extinguishers, bandages and iodine ready for a bad crash. In less skillful hands than Pilot June's the plane probably would have gouged her skis into the ice, somersaulted into a heap. Coolly he pulled his Condor's nose up almost to the stalling angle, squashed the ship's tail into the snow. The skis bounced up into a near horizontal. In that split second Pilot June set the ship down safely...
...lets them sink or swim. But thanks to the exploratory works of critics, and notably such an exegetical commentary as Stuard Gilbert's James Joyce's Ulysses (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931),! the plain reader can now literally find out what Ulysses is all about. Lacking the sleuth-nose, the slot-trained paws of scholarship, even an intelligent reader will miss much the first time over the ground. At that, however, the main outlines of the story are plain...