Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leavenworth Prison, Kans., Harvey Bailey and Albert Bates, kidnappers of Charles F. Urschel, were last week fed a pint of milk every four hours through a hose up the nose. Reason for the feeding: a hunger strike which they later quit. Reason for the hunger strike: solitary confinement. Reason for solitary confinement: refusal to reveal the hiding of $100,000 unrecovered ransom money...
...more than a little in love. The scheme carries and Tycoon Abbott sues for mercy. To complete his revenge, Kit discovers that he has slept with his father's new wife, though both were ignorant of the other's identity. Having made his father pay through the nose, Kit returns him all the money, with interest, which his upbringing has cost. From the rest he gives Beatrice a handsome dowry, Narcissa a present that will make her pomp less anxious, then takes himself and his sternly aching heart off to parts unknown. Net result...
...Theodore Leslie Shear sifted 23,000 tons of earth, turned up 15,000 coins of ancient Greece and the nations who traded with her. Another prize was a broad-browed, calm-eyed marble bust of Augustus, first Roman Emperor, intact except for the tip of the nose. Still another was a Mycenaean sepulchre containing a "very unusual" gold signet ring and three skeletons. On the site of old Corinth, Princeton's Professor Richard Stillwell was excited when he uncovered a mosaic floor 31 by 24 ft., laid by Romans of the empire period. Its central panel depicted a palm...
...representative of TIME had called in our home, or spoke before an assembly of our 100 high school boys and girls and flaunted this picture before them I would have punched his nose and kicked him out of the teacherage and the schoolbuilding...
...narrow that it cannot include within its curriculum a few courses in the art of national preservation, Harvard had better cease to exist as a national institution, or as an institution of any kind. A Harvard diploma is a wonderful thing for a job seeker to wave under the nose of an employer, but it will not turn aside enemy gunfire, or protect the "guts" or "lack of guts" from an enemy bayonet. Perhaps, the author of the editorial is quite sure that he will never face an enemy bayonet. Such is his privilege. But I wish to suggest...