Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Haled into court in Milwaukee, Wis., for drunken driving, Henry Kilps walked a straight line, put his finger to his nose, pronounced hard words. But Henry Kilps's urine showed an alcoholic content of .24%. Fine...
Most hay fever victims understand little about their malady. No mere irritant of nose and throat, the pollen, when inhaled, affects the bloodstream, is repelled by specific "reagins" the body produces to fight the irritating grains. Hence neither inhalants nor drops in the eyes bring more than temporary relief. But fairly reliable insurance for a quiet season is hypodermic injections given two months before the expected illness: a doctor scratches a patient's skin, applies various types of pollen extract; the one which produces wheals and itching is then administered in subcutaneous injections of refined, sterilized pollen...
...their rulers performed two exceptional acts last week in quick succession: 1) Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare waived formalities, turned into a British subject the jobless longtime (1920-38) Minister of Austria to the Court of St. James's, Baron Georg Franckenstein (who in spite of his beaked nose is an Aryan); 2) King George VI called his new subject to Buckingham Palace, dubbed him Sir George Franckenstein, Knight...
...about the Hughes flight had dwindled to tabloid speculation over when where or whether Howard Hughes would wed Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, off again was Corrigan, his crate loaded with 320 gallons of gasoline, apparently headed for home to get his nickel back. But instead of heading West, the blind nose of his old ship aimed East, picked up the Lindbergh trail. Year before he had applied for permission to attempt an ocean night, but the Bureau of Air Commerce cracking down on stunt flying, refused...
...heard in Honolulu, 4,226 miles away. Altering the length of the harmonically operated antenna gave his radio beam virtually any direction he chose. When the antenna trailed its rubber wind sock at full length, the signal was concentrated straight on the spot to which the plane's nose pointed, straight back in the opposite direction. This gave maximum performance down the two most desirable paths, forward to the next destination, back to the last point of departure. With the beam so concentrated, the 100-watt main transmitter's effective power swelled to 250 watts. When sending...