Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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House members were fairly polite to the Secretary. Crusty old Democrat Carter Glass produced a bluish bundle wrapped in rubber bands. "That bundle," he warned, "is German marks which once were worth $46,000 and they are not worth wiping your nose...
...Denver General Hospital he said that his name was John Bellinger, that he was 35 years old, that he was a cafe dishwasher, that he had always followed his nose until a few days before. Then he found it impossible to walk forward and, driven by an irresistible urge to walk backward, he began to follow another part of his body. Since hospital physicians found Bellinger in excellent physical health, they called in two psychiatrists...
...University have been made to boost the retirement income of low-wage employees. Suzie's case is therefore far more desperate than Jenny's. Obviously Suzie can not take much more out of her present wages to contribute to the Pension Plan and still keep her financial nose above water. Yet it stands to reason that she should receive something near the $35 income which is guaranteed to waitresses outside educational institutions and who are legally included in the Government's Social Security Program. Hence the University should step in and make a concerted effort to raise retirement incomes...
Thus his roommates have found the solution. At the appointed hour, they swoop down on him and drag him up to a sitting position. Several resounding slaps will cause his eyes to open. Suspended from the ceiling so that it hangs just in front of his nose is a large-lettered sign which reads: "GET UP, YOU STUPID...
...Indianapolis, a young woman who had been vaccinated for smallpox rubbed the small pink spot on her arm with her finger, with the same finger vigorously scratched her nose. Few days later, her doctor found that, while the vaccination had not taken on her arm, it certainly had on her nose...