Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dusk the Nourmahal rounded Manhattan Island, shoved its knife-edged nose through Hell Gate and out into Long Island Sound. By morning it was anchored in Fort Pond Bay near Montauk Point. Because the weather was drizzly, the President lazed about all day, reading, resting. The third day, wearing only a pair of duck trousers, he went off fishing on the sloop Orca under the guidance of bronzed, taciturn Captain Herman Gray, who used to take President Hoover out sailfishing in Florida. President Roosevelt & party got only some sea bass and porgies, no swordfish, no bluefish. one tuna. Remarked Captain...
...Philip D. Armour III, 37, who was first vice president, but Mr. Lee who was 52, had served in nearly every department of the business. Another change followed: T. George Lee became simply T. G. Lee and took up a tough job. He did more than stare down his nose at subordinates and say, as he liked to, "You're all wet." In his first report to stockholders he had to report a $2,682,000 operating deficit, but he went in for economy. For 1932 with sales only two-thirds as great as the year before...
...landing gear. Its engine still roaring, it plunged on some 25 yd. before flumping on its side. Bright little flames were trickling up to the gas tanks. Watchers could see de Pinedo, who had been pitched through the windshield, writhing on the ground just under the ship's nose. Next second plane & pilot were a towering holocaust...
Every traveller knows that Paris is four hours from the sea. Fewer travellers know that commercially its traffic comes from the thousands of long black barges with vast rudders and gaily painted strakes that nose slowly up & down the Seine, the Aisne, Marne and Oise bringing goods to the long city quays where hypnotized fishermen sit over their long bamboo poles. For nearly a day last week no barges reached the Paris quays from either Seine or Oise. Fifteen miles down the river where Seine meets Oise at the village of Conflans-Ste-Honorine, the barges were tied straight across...
...lead, watched horse after horse try to catch her, break irritably into a gallop and be taken to the outside to calm down. Last to try it was tough little Brown Berry. Mary Reynolds watched him come, and slacken. Then she pulled her sulky wheels in front of his nose, slammed home in 2:03¾, three lengths ahead of Brown Berry...