Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know what it was all about, the students referred him to an old Massachusetts statute, passed in 1888. Treasurer Shea spent an hour hunting up the statute, found it, paid the $2. He also learned that the law required him to cut off and burn the seal's nose, as evidence a bounty had been paid. Descending to the basement, Shea carefully amputated the seal's nose, tossed it into the furnace. Then he billed the State for $2.50-$2 for the bounty, 50? for removing the nose...
Last week with a great grinding of gears, this Japanese machine, nose-jammed for a month against the "Hindenburg Line," supplies exhausted, communications cut, went into reverse and began backing away to feel for safer ground...
...swept past Battleship, and Sir Alexander Maguire's Workman came from behind. As attendants were loading the carcass of Rock Lad upon an ambulance, Royal Danieli, Battleship and Workman thundered over the last jump. Cooleen and Delachance were fourth and fifth, Blue Shirt far behind in seventh place. Nose and nose Royal Danieli and Battleship raced toward the finish...
...closest the old Grand National had ever seen. In the last few strides Battleship-eleven years old, a 40-to-1 shot- won by little more than the elegantly arching nose which makes him look like his great father. Racegoers will have good reason to remember that victory because...
...temperamental, Costals undertakes the amorous education of Solange with a patience that astonishes even himself. He raves about her legs, her eyes, her hair, her ears, her wrist watch, her vaccination marks, her manners and the fact that she does not read his novels, "When she blows her little nose," he exclaims, "it's always behind a newspaper (moderate in its views) so that I shan't see her do anything...