Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easy, unaffected, done with long, slow phrases like Mildred Bailey, yet with the same rhythm that Ella Fitzgerald puts into everything that she does. Instead of Ella and Mildred singing duets, all the musical commotion was caused by a young lady with a wide grin surmounted by a pug nose. Later, over the traditional musician's supper--steak and French fries, this astonishing miss proceeded without the aid of any band to sing a style of lilting jazz with a sincerity seldom heard, and with a real singing voice--with the power and tone all there...
Sullivan and two of his sons had difficulty in delivering the gifts and waited in the Statler's lobby while members of the dance committee questioned their credentials. One of them threatened to "punch the nose" of anyone who tried to take the wreath and canaries, last-minute substitutes for the doves of peace, upstairs to the ball room. When Sullivan showed his card as a Councilman he was told he should be ashamed of himself...
With holy oil Monsignor de Romanis touched the Pope's closed eyes. "By this holy unction and His most loving mercy may the Lord pardon thee whatever thou hast sinned by sight." The dying man's ears, nose, mouth, hands, feet by holy unction were shrived. With the others' low voices joining in the responses, Monsignor de Romanis prayed: "Make safe Thy servant, my God, who trusts in Thee. Send him, 0 Lord, help from Thy holy place, and defend him out of Zion...
...Harcourt, Brace ($5). *Argyrol was the first silver compound found strong enough to kill gonococci without injuring delicate membranes of eyes, nose, throat, bladder. Many hospitals still use it to protect the eyes of newborn babies against blindness caused by gonorrhea. † Others: The French Primitives & Their Forms, The Art of Henri Matisse, The Art of Renoir...
Along in the dressing-room, Vag picked up the be-horned helmet and put it on his head. Then he walked over to the mirror and adjusted a bushy moustache under his nose. As an afterthought he added red eyebrows, which, he noted, beetled just right. Macbeth stared at himself a moment and then began to roar out the soliloquy...